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No, it's the kind of example a professor of economics might tell his students when explaining opportunity costs or when trying to convince them that deep down they really are very self-interested.
If someone posted an explanation of Pythagoras' theorem, I wouldn't upvote that either, however useful it is to middle school students.
That is not a comparable example. Pythagoras' theorem is not relevant to this site. By contrast, altruism and optimal charity are frequent topics of discussion on this site.
And yet an explanation of Bayes' theorem gets referenced and linked commonly.
My standard for top level posts is a little higher than my standard for comments.
Actually the one I'm thinking of is an off-site article, but if it was here it would be a post to main. And there's a main post explaining the same thing, that was rather well-received.