I feel like you'd be worse off for trying to pull a fast one.

我感觉，想要搞欺骗那一套只会把情况弄得更糟糕。

In principle, you might expect that countries with booming populations to be worse off than less densely populated places with endless arable acres.

一般而言，有较快人口增长率的国家在可用耕地面积方面比人口密度小的国家要糟糕。