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I legit have a copy of this story somewhere that ends with a “the moral is…” statement along the lines of “that’s why you should work hard and not be lazy”.
Like, what? We did not cover the work ethic of the pigs at all here. As far as I can tell, they each built an entire goddamn house! What about the wolf?
The version I remember being told had the first little pig just look around and see straw, the second little pig had to go gather sticks from the nearby woods, and the third little pig had to actually make the bricks over days.
Amazing how all of this is purely labour and no capital.
But capitalist parasites keep shilling it
“Capital” would be:
whatever oven or kiln the 3rd pig is using to make the bricks
how the 3rd pig is getting paid / eating during the lengthier time it takes for him to make bricks and then build a more labor intensive construction
But thanks for playing
in the story, he dried them in the sun.
the story says the pigs who did less work spent the days playing not getting paid and buying food
No man that sun drying shit is expansion universe, not canon. And the author has said himself that pig 3 was on retainer for a masonry company.
So all capital is sourced from labour?
Hmmm
No some of the capital that paid for the pig’s upkeep during his build period was the proceeds from natural resources that were conserved during a season of plenty to be sold in a time of scarcity. If you want to call eating less in the summertime “labor” with a capital L you can while I sit here and laugh. Capital is just liquidity. You can generate it by labor but that doesn’t make it the same as labor or the property of others who have labor to give.
Mental gymnastics to justify bootlicking B strong here 🤡
Kindergarten marxism be strong over there. 😂🫡
I am not a Marxist and my comment history speaks for itself.
Can't even muster up a proper come back based on doctrine tho sad
I prefer the Green Jelly version of the story.
"The moral of the story is a band with no talent can easily amuse idiots with a stupid puppet show."
And that's why you should use tools instead of trying to blow a house down if you wanna eat some little pigs.
The cover by Green Jelly explains it better
I know this is days late, but I’m glad to see the canonical version with Rammmmmmmbo mentioned.
'dont make your house out of flimsy shit or else some fucker is gonna demolish and murder you' ???