An ant on a Crapheap

Once upon a time, there was an ant who was part of a colony. This colony made him work all the time, and then took a lot of the stuff that he worked for and shared it out with all the other ants. This ant didn't like that too well, but he put up with it because the colony was the best place he could live.



Then one day, the ant colony decided that they were going to borrow from themselves because a few ant leaders had made some decidedly sketchy decisions and to pay for all of this new borrowing, they would have to take more from the busy ant underlings. Not just yet, mind you, but one day soon and in the near future.



So then the ant didn't like the colony as much. Also, the ant predicted massive and crippling inflation due to low interest rates and the fact that the ant treasury was devaluing what goods the ant had saved up. He soon realized that no matter how much he worked, by the time he got old, he wouldn't ever have enough saved up to be able to stop working. And it was largely because of the lazy bastards in the ant colony that wanted to have everything that he had, but didn't want to work for it. The ones who had always lined up to take what he worked for away from him and to share it as their own. They hadn't educated themselves about the ants' economic system at all and had made poor choices as a result that had jeopardized the future of the whole colony.



Well, at that point, the little ant decided that he didn't care what was best for the colony because they didn't care what was best for him. So he climbed all the way to the top of the crapheap that blocked the view past the colony to think. And when he got there, he looked out and saw that there was a place called Uruguay.



There was not a big colony there with lots of people who wanted to take things from the ant. The ant leaders there suggested that this little ant come to where they lived and start his OWN colony! What an idea! To live like nature intended, reaping the benefits of his own labor with his own family as his society! Well, needless to say, the ant left the other colony just as China and Russia bent it over and started to do unspeakably inappropriate things to it, and then it was invaded by Canada and North Korea picked a fight with everyone else in the world because they thought their leader was a God. As it turned out, he wasn't.



But the little ant didn't mind. He had found a quiet little corner of the world with cheap property, great costs of living, and an opportunity to spend his days with his family near beautiful beaches. Also, lots of other ants from his old colony saw that they were getting a raw deal and made similar exoduses, with the result that there was a property boom in Uruguay and the little ant made a fortune because he had gotten there first.....and nobody took it away from him.



The End.