https://pestilenz.org/~bauerm/shoestring Miscellaneous Byproducts en https://pestilenz.org/~bauerm/shoestring/2026/02/02#parables.for.our.times <blockquote> <p> There once was a teacher who had her students submit their homework by putting it on a heap on her desk, which was right in front by the blackboard. </p> <p> And there was a student who picked a random homework from this heap every day and went down the hall to the photocopier. He copied the randomly selected homework and put his name on the copy. He then put the original and his copy on the submission-heap. </p> <p> When asked why he did this, he said that the photocopier was just a tool, which made him at least 10 times more productive at homework, and that it was just the wilfull ignorance of the other students that made homework so difficult for them. </p> </blockquote>