The document discusses master limited partnerships (MLPs) and compares them to sausage making and laws. Some key points: 1) MLPs involve a complex assembly process like sausage making, with defects that can be hard to spot, but they provide needed energy infrastructure services and yield attractive returns. 2) MLPs have significantly outperformed other asset classes in recent decades, but high valuations mean lower future returns are likely. There is also risk from rising interest rates and falling energy prices. 3) General partners of MLPs receive incentive distribution rights that pay them an increasing share of cash flows as the MLP grows, which can dilute returns for limited partners but reward the general partners.