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Full Idea
The consequentialist Mohists give a fairly objective characterisation of benefits as wealth, populousness, and social order, and harm as poverty, depopulation, and social chaos.
Gist of Idea
Mohists desire wealth, population and social order as the best consequences
Source
report of Mozi (The Mozi [c.440 BCE]) by Bryan van Norden - Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy 4.I
Book Ref
Norden,Bryan van: 'Intro to Classical Chinese Philosophy' [Hackett 2011], p.52
A Reaction
That is a formula favoured by many authoritarian leaders in modern times.