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Tumblr post by elymaiis with a Follow button: "If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime," but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river,…

Teach a Man to Fish: The Copyrighted Fishing Net

A Tumblr post rewrites the 'teach a man to fish' proverb as a bitter critique of the wealth gap and the generations told to just work harder.

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Tumblr post by elymaiis with a Follow button: "If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime," but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river,…

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