The cartoon that I saw showed the first 2 pigs dancing and goofing around after they quickly built their houses, while the third pig continued working on his brick house. I always thought the moral was a simple "work now, play later".
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I thought it was, "Never trust a wolf who wants in your house?"
Yes, exactly. If those silly poor people only worked harder they too could be aristocracy.
Actually, the pigs lives in an egalitarian society. All three had access to straw, sticks, and bricks. Unfortunately, there was no sort of meritocracy involved until the wolf came along. The stupid pigs were allowed to do as they wished. No building codes, and no one wanted to "dwelling-shame" them.
Well with infinite access to resources the pigs should have been stockpiling and starting to build businesses in the expectation that they would have needed to protect their property and could have hired a bigger, badder wolf at an acceptable market rate to ensure a minimal loss
/s in case that wasn’t clear
The wolf brought natural selection into the picture and now all the houses are much better than before.
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:
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whatever oven or kiln the 3rd pig is using to make the bricks
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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
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in the story, he dried them in the sun.
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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
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 don't remember any of the versions of this story involving money.
Nobody ever mentioned where the materials came from, it was just two dumbasses who decided to build their houses out of inferior materials
No no you don’t understand. Every children’s story is about beating your competition in the market and how regulation doesn’t actually support competition because it’s on you to analyze and prepare for market forces. Also my billion dollar vehicle company is failing because I didn’t properly prepare, I’m gonna need a major government bailout
If you give a mouse a cookie....
He'll use it to overthrow the government and install a far-right terrorist regime: The Book
It could also be interpreted as a criticism of Libertarianism. The first two pigs didn't go by any building codes, and instead decided that they wanted to build their shelters out of inferior materials with substandard protections against high winds. The third pig made sure that his dwelling met hurricane standards, and was saved. The story doesn't go into the reasons why pigs #1 and #2 chose inferior building materials, so it could be interpreted in a number of different ways. It doesn't HAVE to be about economics. It could just be that pigs #1 and #2 were big fans of Ayn Rand and reaped the whirlwind as a result.
What?
100% lol, hadn't thought of it that way
As per usual. If you don't have money to protect yourself, it's because you're lazy and/or stupid, and definitely worth condescending.
What are some other aristocracy-informed cautionary tales haha?
Rudolph the rednosed reindeer
It is bad to be different as long as it is not economically exploitable
Every fairy tale with a good king/queen/princess/prince?
Or One Thousand and One Nights has the king killing his wifes left and right, but by the end it's alright, because he really loves his current wife now...
Since you are asking for cautionary tales, The Fisherman and his Wife might a better fit. Just be glad of what you have and don't strive for advancing.