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(DIR) Post #AT4V6rL5q6UWu2qarQ by MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social
2023-02-26T12:41:07Z
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and then buy the pond. Tell him he can't have the fish, but he can fish for you and you will sell the fish and give him a very small cut, and then he'll say stuff like "I am hungry and my teeth hurt". Nobody wants to fish these days.
(DIR) Post #AT4jd1NbRXpAfTFe8u by thricebedamned@dice.camp
2023-02-26T15:23:47Z
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@MostlyHarmless this is right up there with the "You have two cows" parodies.
(DIR) Post #AT4jowzPakAWWjcmAq by sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie
2023-02-26T15:25:57Z
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@MostlyHarmless Is it any wonder? https://www.ft.com/content/f41a30d4-06d1-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd
(DIR) Post #AT4k4wv7cIAMwhFMDA by AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social
2023-02-26T15:28:50Z
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@MostlyHarmlessBut they fish anyway because the cops make sure that the potential danger in not fishing is too high to chance it.@RD4Anarchy
(DIR) Post #AT4o9EfhxW2UyYKuq8 by endoftheworld@mastodon.world
2023-02-26T16:14:26Z
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@MostlyHarmless I like cod. Just, take the fish.
(DIR) Post #AT4q5QtWlwwRdO7Aye by Kamloopian@mstdn.ca
2023-02-26T16:36:06Z
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@MostlyHarmless def. Capitalism
(DIR) Post #AT4skVTspCt1djpiTo by karenvkelly@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-02-26T17:05:55Z
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@MostlyHarmless As long as working people suffer and the rich get even more morbidly rich, it makes perfect sense to Republicans. Here’s another fishing analogy to make the point: https://giraffe-vanilla-e9ae.squarespace.com/home/gop-the-pennywise-party
(DIR) Post #AT4thPPv0vfZv047KC by 1312161etc@kolektiva.social
2023-02-26T17:16:38Z
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@MostlyHarmless Unfortunately they'll also say things like "If you just fish hard enough you'll be a millionaire one day" while their teeth fall out and their kids cancer GoFundMe gets $1k
(DIR) Post #AT4ucdZr2TmELG09Oi by louisvuittonmastodon@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T17:26:55Z
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@MostlyHarmless what does this have to do with my ketamine addiction though?
(DIR) Post #AT4xX8LG2mb5siF0qW by jasonxbergman@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-02-26T17:59:35Z
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@MostlyHarmless Or as Terry Pratchett put it:Teach a man to start a fire and he's warm for an evening.Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
(DIR) Post #AT51OtxA3YRIkvIgCm by peltast@mstdn.ca
2023-02-26T18:42:52Z
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@MostlyHarmless Have you considered bringing in the police to break up the fishing strike? Or making it illegal not to fish for you? Both good options!
(DIR) Post #AT53joyZxLIrJE4BLU by BobAges@kolektiva.social
2023-02-26T19:09:07Z
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@MostlyHarmless I’ve always had a different pedagogical conclusion to that trope: … but give a person an AK47 and they can liberate the entire fishing area.
(DIR) Post #AT54hfRwVJCz8eL1Bw by OWOP@mastodon.world
2023-02-26T19:19:55Z
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@MostlyHarmless The Messengers of God:Great without measure or small and fragile, fierce with strength or timid and quiet as a thought are God’s messengers. *All teaching is of you trying to impart knowledge that you’ve gained from your efforts. It is by its very nature biased to your beliefs and thus easily corrupted or dismissed. The learning process is also of you and manipulated in the same way by your biases. Let go of those and find understanding with humility. OWOP
(DIR) Post #AT56pl8zPsP11YSWhs by jbond@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T19:43:48Z
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@MostlyHarmless Give a man a fish, he'll have a nice fish supper. Teach a man to fish and he'll wipe out the bloody species.
(DIR) Post #AT56q4H8HpCoMJPnXM by celset2@universeodon.com
2023-02-26T19:43:51Z
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@MostlyHarmless how’d you know🤔
(DIR) Post #AT59tSckVzO6bdprQe by bytebro@mastodonapp.uk
2023-02-26T20:18:05Z
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@MostlyHarmless Capitalism in a nutshell. You need to run an economics class!
(DIR) Post #AT5QwbY1UX6wN8i4DA by foreverandaday@mastodon.social
2023-02-26T23:29:09Z
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@MostlyHarmless just an fyi, your post got posted on r/latestagecapitalism on reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/comments/11clpsm
(DIR) Post #AT5UYeZ31Yigav1WrY by brianstorms@mastodon.social
2023-02-27T00:09:36Z
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@MostlyHarmless Give a man a fish and after he takes it to a lab to have it analyzed for lead, arsenic, mercury, PFAS, microplastics, radioactivity, dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, legacy pesticides, selenium, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, he comes back and hands you the fish back, he’ll ask you why were you trying to poison him, after which he will call the police to have you arrested.
(DIR) Post #AT5YegBYJGIfAzA9tA by LizardSF@universeodon.com
2023-02-27T00:55:33Z
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@MostlyHarmless Thanks to @ZachWeinersmith , I present the ultimate men and fish summation. (Notably, the final panel.) https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teach-a-man-to-fish
(DIR) Post #AT5dhLpAy1DsfRn1Si by Svetlana2@mastodon.social
2023-02-27T01:52:00Z
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@MostlyHarmless Do you like my dress? It's a Versace. We're having dinner at the Y.
(DIR) Post #AT5eyXjy16UaV97C1Q by antonioyon@mastodon.social
2023-02-27T02:06:22Z
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@MostlyHarmless Build a man a fire; keep him warm for a night. Set a man on fire; keep him warm for a lifetime.
(DIR) Post #AT5kQxyeYtNRkjMBwe by rchrd@mastodon.online
2023-02-27T03:07:31Z
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@MostlyHarmless if you have a pond you should farm shrimp, not fish
(DIR) Post #AT6ELSTJGhobDVzBg0 by Andii@mas.to
2023-02-27T08:42:41Z
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@MostlyHarmless That seems to be the strategy the Romans used re Lake Galilee in the time of Jesus. Funny how all this stuff is coming round again ...
(DIR) Post #AT7CLsKJ8SJaebo372 by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2023-02-27T19:55:00Z
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@MostlyHarmless note all the virtues of capitalism come from those who can fish for themselves. The but her, baker, farmer, rancher, barber, taylor, watch maker or doctor. Not from the despotic prince who owns all the land and commands tax and loyalty because he owns all the coconuts.
(DIR) Post #AT8f9Qq2bMPBkr1nMW by cecilbothwell@mindly.social
2023-02-28T12:52:27Z
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@MostlyHarmless Excerpt from my upcoming book "Tha's Life."Teach a man person to fishI nearly fell into that trap. It isn't just men who angle, right? And then the first part of that old saw regarding the giving of fish? Well, in my experience, and not to be sexist, if you give a man a fish he'll probably throw it in a frying pan, maybe with some butter, whereas, again based on my experience, if you give a woman a fish she's more than likely going to season it in interesting ways,
(DIR) Post #AT8fHr62rHN1VeWwmO by cecilbothwell@mindly.social
2023-02-28T12:54:00Z
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@MostlyHarmless Excerpt from "That's Life" continued (character limit): perhaps douse it with lemon juice or wine, perhaps tarragon vinegar, maybe something zingy like red pepper oil, plus herbs and spices, and then bake it, or perhaps bread it with flavored crumbs of some Indo-European variety. This is why, when I'm in fish-giving mode, I give fish to women and hope I'll be invited to dinner.But as for the teaching part, I have my Mom to thank.
(DIR) Post #ATB4vDN6rMPz3iISbA by tmstreet@urbanists.social
2023-03-01T16:50:37Z
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@MostlyHarmless The promise, going all the way back to at least Adam Smith is that with increased productivity, there will be more leisure. The work ethic is a culturally and religiously induced ethic. If there are people who gain satisfaction from their employment, good for them. But the tirade about people supposedly not wanting to work is implies there is something inherently wrong with wanting less work.