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.

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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 04/19/2010EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 10:31:45 AM

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