Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can .. well, you know the rest. . Larken Rose
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. If you are familiar with the concept of supply-and-demand, then this quote is an example of that. As long as there are people willing to give you fish, you will always have fish. However, if you can get people to steal fish from other people, while giving them to you, they will become dependent on you.

Then they won’t care about the fish they have stolen because it is all coming from someone else. As long as they continue stealing it will be easy for you to expand your market and demand more and more fish stolen from others – or perhaps even stealfish from yourself – and the business will go from good to great.

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