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The Restaurant of School
Imagine the government opens a restaurant.
A team of experts design ten dishes they believe cover everyone's nutritional needs. They are so convinced that people need these dishes that they mandate everyone eat at the restaurant, five days a week, at their own expense under threat of law.
People can eat other places, but still must pay for the government restaurant.
Over time people tire of the food and the way the restaurant is run because its very resistant to input from its customers and has no incentive to be responsive because it is getting paid either way. The customers are so conditioned to believe the restaurant is good for them, they never question the idea of a mandated restaurant.
They constantly critique the food and service, but never contemplate whether the restaurant is necessary at all.
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