I think the key to teaching is the outlandish example. My students said they wanted to end poverty (which as $9600/family way back when). I told them I could end poverty overnight...it’s easy. They asked me to explain.
I told them all you had to do was gather up everyone who made $9600 or less and shoot them. Their eyes went as big as pie plates! I then asked them: “How long would it take until the person making $9601 started bitching that he was poor?” We then had a meaningful discussion about the distribution of income and how talent is not evenly distributed.
I’ve had more than one student tell me, decades later, they never forgot that discussion.
“I told them all you had to do was gather up everyone who made $9600 or less and shoot them.”
Who came first with the use of the outlandish example - you or Dr. Walter Williams? I always enjoyed his stories when he subbed for Rush back in the day. I would have relished having an entire semester of class with him.