• AmidFuror
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    652 months ago

    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.

    • @kautau@lemmy.world
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      162 months ago

      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

  • @alwaysorg@lemmy.world
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    412 months ago

    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”.

      • @DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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        32 months ago

        I thought it was that you should build your house out of decently strong materials or it may collapse under a stiff breeze

    • qevlarr
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      12 months ago

      How is that different from blaming poor people they have a bad work ethic?

      • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        Because it was a message about needed to stockpile for the winter or other emergencies. It was a message from parents to their children.

  • @kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    302 months ago

    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?

    • @candybrie@lemmy.world
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      142 months ago

      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.

      • sunzu2
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        -72 months ago

        Amazing how all of this is purely labour and no capital.

        But capitalist parasites keep shilling it

        • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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          52 months ago

          “Capital” would be:

          1. whatever oven or kiln the 3rd pig is using to make the bricks

          2. 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

          • @candybrie@lemmy.world
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            22 months ago
            1. in the story, he dried them in the sun.

            2. the story says the pigs who did less work spent the days playing not getting paid and buying food

            • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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              32 months ago

              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.

          • sunzu2
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            12 months ago

            So all capital is sourced from labour?

            Hmmm

            • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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              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.

  • @spookex@lemmy.world
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    282 months ago

    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

    • @kautau@lemmy.world
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      102 months ago

      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

  • @elbucho@lemmy.world
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    242 months ago

    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.

  • Hugucinogens
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    122 months ago

    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.

  • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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    102 months ago

    The 4th pig built his house from wolf skulls, significantly less practical but it does send a fucking message.

    • @Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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      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.