In Form 1, my math teacher Mr.
Iro would take our class out to have pizza and discuss philosophy. It was
during these pizza limes that I learnt about the economist Milton Friedman, and
his famous “free lunch myth”. According to Friedman the free lunch myth is the
belief that “governments can spend money at nobody’s expense”. In reality
Friedman argued, goods and services must be paid for, and the idea that
governments can provide these at no cost to the persons receiving them, is a
myth. Mr. Iro was a good teacher. Unfortunately he was also a pedophile and was
arrested a year later. In hindsight I should have realized why he kept telling
me, “Darryn free pizza is a myth”.
