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Originally posted by Agamemnon+Jun 10 2005, 06:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Agamemnon @ Jun 10 2005, 06:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Flame Of Liberty@Jun 10 2005, 08:58 AM
You know the saying, give the poor man a fish; you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish; you will feed him for the rest of his life.
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Lol hilarious. That's the thoery anyway.
The reality is, 'Don't give the man a fish. Teach a man to fish, loan him a boat, and take all his fish as pay for the boat'. If the 'man' is lucky, he'll have some pay to buy one or two of the fish to eat.
The 'teach a man to fish' phrase is out of touch with reality. No corporation has this ideal as one of it's mandates. Not surprising to see this from you.
edit: looks like Five-hole and I are of a mind, above post. [/b][/quote]
You know what is truly hilarious? The fact that you took the saying out of context and (again) missed the point.
Read the whole paragraph again.
This isn’t about wealth transfer. It is about wealth creation. 3rd world does not need your charity gifts as much as it needsfree economic environment. Only then those people will be able to produce their own food, build their shelter, in short – improve their lives. You know the saying, give the poor man a fish; you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish; you will feed him for the rest of his life.
It is about free economic environment. It is not about fishing rods. It is about explaining to people why is deregulated economy better for them. It is about explaining free economy to them instead of throwing a bone to them here and there. It is about explaining to people how less state involvement in economy helps to improve their lives. It is about explaining to them why open economy increases standard of living. It is about how these people can lift themselves on their feet. If you want to talk about fishing though, trade barriers hurts SE Asian fishing industry a lot more than international aid helps them. Complaining about Nike wont help those people.
Five hole is right about one thing though. State corporativism (i.e. companies closely tied with governments) wont allow removal of trade barriers, they wont open the economy. But you are attacking the wrong enemy there. If you want to improve lives of people living in 3rd world countries, what you should be doing is asking for more open globalized economy (less protectionism on Canadian part). But no, you are crying foul that 3rd world workers are stealing Canadian jobs. A little bit schizophrenical, aren’t we?