The ant was an evil capitalist expropriating public commons natural bounty of rivalrous/excludable goods for private winter use, while grasshopper was a public-spirited citizen producing non-rivalrous, non-excludable musical goods that ant enjoyed/free-rode on.
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you can't be a capitalist outside of the legal constructs which recognize capital
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Interesting choice of ants and grasshoppers. Have you seen Pixar’s ‘A Bugs Life’? It would add zest to this tweet when reviewing from another lens.
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Nothing evil in the ant’s behavior, or anything public-spirited in the grasshopper’s, according to the dictionary.





