A little red hen finds a grain of wheat, and asks for help from the other farmyard animals to plant it, but none of them volunteer. At each later stage (harvest, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and baking the flour into bread), the hen again asks for help from the other animals, but again she gets no assistance. Finally, the hen has completed her task, and asks who will help her eat the bread. This time, all the previous non-participants eagerly volunteer. She declines their help, stating that no one aided her in the preparation work. Thus, the hen eats it with her chicks leaving none for anyone else. The moral of this story is that those who show no willingness to contribute to a product do not deserve to enjoy the product: if any would not work, neither should he eat.” Socialists claim that the hen is being unfair if she does not share her bread with the other animals, and would force her at gunpoint to share her bread with those who would not work for it. This in turn would remove the hens incentive to work resulting in poverty for the entire barnyard.
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:08:23 +0000
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