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Becky Williams's avatar

Americans would be better off if there were less of us, rather than fewer³.

I laughed out loud at the beautifully correct use of less and fewer. To answer your grammar question, what you want is the subjunctive (hypothetical) mood. Again, your construction is correct.

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Kelly Harbeson's avatar

I think the true "original sin" of human beings is the need so many of us have for learning things "the hard way". I remember thalidomide. Sometimes I wonder who else does. From drugs that make it easier to lose weight to the ones that make it easier to put on muscle mass most people seem to have lost (or more likely never had) any ability to discern the payoffs of their actions. Almost as if advertising was NOT entended to make you believe side effects do not exist.

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