The sad truth about altruism is that there aren’t enough altruists
The people who fill the truly essential roles in society are often in short supply
By Joe Queenan
Illustrations by Sébastien Thibault
From time to time, societies run low on the things — and the people — they really need. We wake up one day and realize that there are too few doctors. Or far, far, far too few nurses. Or it suddenly dawns on us that there aren’t enough teachers, engineers, or plumbers to go around. There are certainly never enough guys who work well with sheetrock.
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