Source: American Institute for Economic Research
by Michael Munger
“One of my favorite cartoons chronicles a man who lives in an apartment with an aggressive cat and a nice dog. The animals can talk, and argue, but their ability to reason is about what you’d expect: crude inference based on limited observation. The man is constantly irritated by what the cat and dog call ‘The Magic Food Cupboard.’ In the pet’s minds, the shelf where their kibble is stored is literally ‘where food comes from.’ … I have some New York friends whose views of ‘where food comes from’ are not different from ‘the magic food cupboard’ in the comic.” (05/08/24)