A free lunch is just another term for something left to lose
Harvey Mackay
When a plague of poverty decimated an ancient land, the king called in his wisest economic advisers and demanded they prepare a short textbook on economics so he might devise a remedy.
A full year later, the king's advisers returned with 87 volumes. Enraged at having his orders ignored, the king ordered his guards to execute half the advisers. Fearful for their lives, the remaining advisers edited the economics texts down to four volumes. The angry king responded by ordering his guards to execute all but one of the remaining economic experts.
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