Comic #4128: teach-a-man-to-fish

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Panel 1
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day."

Panel 2
"Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

Panel 3
"Teach every man to fish, and you will feed them all, until the fish population collapses."

Panel 4
"Teach a small restricted group of men how to fish really well, and you will feed most people, but will create massive inequality."

Panel 5
"Teach every man to fish and teach every man about common-pool resource management, and you will feed them until social trust breaks down."

Panel 6
"Teach an ethnically homogeneous group to fish, and—"
"Professor!"

Panel 7
"Does this go anywhere?"
"Of course."
"I'm teaching you the fundamental principle of political economy."

Panel 8
"Humans are garbage."

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