Teach-a-man-to-fish

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teach-a-man-to-fish

Title text: In economics, they're robots. In political economy, they're all jerks. In sociology, they're all misunderstood.

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Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Teach every man to fish, and you will feed them all, until the fish population collapges.

Teach a small restricted group of men how to fish really well, and you will feed most people, but will create massive inequality

Teach every man to fish and teach every man about common-pool resource management, and you will feed them until social trust breaks down.

Teach an ethnically homogeneous group

To fish, and-

Professor!

Does this go

Of course.

Anywhere?

I'm teaching you the fundamental principle of political economy.

Humans are garbage

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what

1. humans

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