Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day.

Tell a man all the fish in the world are available to him if only he strives for fishing excellence even as you defund public fishing schools as dangerous socialism but emphasize that if he REALLY wants fish he can either go deeply into debt taking predatory loans to learn the proper means of fish management or take a shit job working for people who also can't fish but were born into a family that owns an empire of factory fish farms where he can harvest gross mutant garbage fish that he and other people whose public fishing schools shuttered can then buy at a 2000% markup because the people who control all the fish say "that is just the market dictating the price of fish" and he will eat what and when you tell him to, is the working theory.

@GrimmReality Sir this is a Long John Silvers.
@GrimmReality Now that’s a 3-unit course on Proverbs!
@GrimmReality so you’re saying we need to know our plaice and we’re just a cod in the capitalist machine and we shouldn’t expect salmonary raises over inflation

@GrimmReality The wealthy family doesn't even need to own a mutant fish farm.

Instead, they can own the property rights to catch fish that were already there.

This allows them to collect a tidy economic rent by licencing others to catch fish that were already in the streams and oceans.

A government that the family deliberately avoids paying taxes to does the hard work of prosecuting anyone who attempts to catch fish without the express written permission of the fish owners.

@GrimmReality
Tell this man, the ocean ecosystem is collapsing, and all fish are heading toward extinction. There really are no longer any viable fish stocks on left earth
@GrimmReality I’m not sure this will fit on a t-shirt.

@GrimmReality build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night.

Set a man on fire, he'll be warm the rest of his life.