Eat Free or Die
Examining the personal thrill and political power of free food
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6 min readSep 25, 2020
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Sure, the general principle of an opportunity cost — that getting one thing we desire means giving up another we also desire — seems ironclad. Yet, whenever someone invokes this adage it’s always a finger-wagging naysayer with one pithy message: You don’t…