You want the Idaho potato farmer motivated by profit rather than love, because the love-motivated supplier would actually be less reliable and more expensive—profit gets the person up early in unpleasant weather, whereas love would yield worse and more expensive potatoes.

causalpending

Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

“it's all these profits we don't have to pay profits yeah it's expensive so it's worse potatoes and more expensive it doesn't work that way”

Source

Mike Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits 04/19/2010— EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:45 AM

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