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LuckyTheDog

(6,837 posts) Fri May 18, 2012, 10:07 PM May 2012

The way things really work... an old proverb updated [View all]

Last edited Fri May 18, 2012, 10:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he gets a subsistence wage at best, but the capitalists who own the boat and the nets eat for a lifetime.

Fishing sucks.

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The way things really work... an old proverb updated [View all] LuckyTheDog May 2012 OP

That's pretty much it. nt Sarah Ibarruri May 2012 #1

That's sort of like: petronius May 2012 #2

Give a man a fish, Rincewind May 2012 #3

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Tsiyu May 2012 #4