What kind of losses? Loss of what? If a majority of people incurred more losses than gains in their lives, we'd all have starved to death tens of thousands of y

What kind of losses? Loss of what? If a majority of people incurred more losses than gains in their lives, we'd all have starved to death tens of thousands of years ago. OK, fair enough its a sort of definition or has the superficial form of one, but it's not actually saying anything.