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[–] jeffwingersballs 1 point 9 points 10 points (+10|-1) ago
You forgot the part where the guy on the right gives the cops a cookie to be a wall between him and the poor people on the left.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 5 points 2 points 7 points (+7|-5) ago
Now do the socialist version, where all three eat their allotted two spoonfuls of gruel.
[–] cynoclast [S] 4 points 2 points 6 points (+6|-4) ago
What's funny is how closely the cookie distribution matches the actual wealth distribution graph in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
[–] jxfaith 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Is funny the word for that? I was thinking depressing.
[–] Ekiph 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
You forgot the part where the guy on the right gives the two on the left menial tasks and rewards them with cookies. Then the guy on the right that is off screen dangles something shiny in front of the two on the left and they give all of their cookie crumbs for garbage they don't need. All the while the guy on the right with the pile of cookies gives cookies to someone smarter than the two on the left, and eventually receives more cookies than he gave away.
[–] didntsayeeeee 4 points 0 points 4 points (+4|-4) ago (edited ago)
Fixed quantity of wealth fallacy.
You'd be better off showing the middle class guy working hard to bake hundreds of cookies every day, while Bernie Sanders supporters sit outside holding protest signs asking why they don't have any cookies.
So the government shows up, tells the middle class guy he has too many cookies, and confiscates half his cookies. The government gives just enough cookies to the Sanders supporters on the front doorstep to keep them alive, and then gives the rest to Goldman Sachs.