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After studying the cats' economic setup, you think you have a better grasp of how it can be applied to human society. You sneak back to the human world, unspotted. You compile your notes and self-publish your research as the phenomenal blockbuster, Not Just Dead Rodents: How Cat-like Gifting Can Fix Our Economy. Its success leads to a subtle but important shift in human priorities as we stop looking at the weakest among us as a source of surplus labor for our own benefit, but instead look for opportunities to improve their lives without expecting anything in return. And (as the book makes very clear) not just by leaving them dead rodents.

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