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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.
If you wait for David to come along and dig a pond, use his own money to stock it with fish, make himself a fishing rod and teach himself to use it, and then take any fish he catches off him and hand them out then the Trisha-watching population will never have to learn to do anything at all.
Whilst you're at it, why not punitively tax shovels, pond-digging and fish food? There's no sense in actually encouraging people to act entrepreneurially, is there?
If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.
If you wait for David to come along and dig a pond, use his own money to stock it with fish, make himself a fishing rod and teach himself to use it, and then take any fish he catches off him and hand them out then the Trisha-watching population will never have to learn to do anything at all.
Whilst you're at it, why not punitively tax shovels, pond-digging and fish food? There's no sense in actually encouraging people to act entrepreneurially, is there?
