Sowell's photography wasn't a hobby separate from his economics — it was the same discipline. 'To be a photographer, you have to master trade-offs. All of the little adjustments that you fiddle with in the camera never involve making everything better or everything worse. It's a matter of trading one thing off to another.' He then maps this directly onto policy: 'There are no solutions, there are only trade-offs.' Anyone selling you a 'solution' is hiding the cost they're imposing on something else.
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