Let’s go back to the simpler days of farm life…
Mother’s in the house baking a nice pie, while the whole family, including the extended family (Two Grandpas and 2 uncles), is out doing the harvest…
Supper time comes around, and the family comes in to enjoy a good meal and a slice of pie…
After dinner, the extended family goes home, but dad is a little miffed…he doesn’t feel, as the main breadwinner, that he got a big enough piece of his favourite pie…
The next day, mother decided to make two pies, but she only had the same amount of ingredients to work with, so she rolled out the crust until you could almost see through it, and put half the filling into each. As you can imagine, Father wasn’t happy with the results, and he thought the flimsy pies were insulting to his guests, not to mention they ate twice as many pieces anyway…
The next day, realizing that there is only enough ingredients to make one pie, father decides, he really doesn’t need the help of their parents with the harvest, and that would leave more pie for the rest…
Well, work too a whole lot longer, and by the time they got in, they were starving…even after getting a bigger portion, Father was still hungry, and was quite upset that Mother couldn’t produce more food in a single day. They had quite the fight, and Father and Mother went to bed angry.
The next day, Father realized that Mother was right, and there just wasn’t enough time to make more food in a day, so instead of inviting his two brothers over to help, he decided to do all the work himself and finally get enough to eat…
Unfortunately, the workload hadn’t changed, and it was very late by the time father got back in. By then, he was way too tired to eat and wound up falling asleep at the table…
Lesson: When there is only a limited supply (money) to begin with, and you want a bigger piece of it, the pie can’t miraculously grow bigger just because you want it to.
