Dependency. Or, He Who Feeds Us Enslaves Us - No. 64. The Dog and the Wolf - The Essential Aesop?- Back to Basics Abridgment Series
Gregg Zegarelli Esq.
Managing Shareholder at Technology & Entrepreneurial Ventures Law Group, PC
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~ Leonardo da Vinci (Adopted by Steve Jobs)
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A hungry?Wolf?came upon a House-dog.
“Cousin Wolf, are you hungry?” said the House-Dog.?“Look at me!?Why not get your food?regularly provided by others?”
“I might, if I could only get a place,” said the Wolf.??
“I can arrange it.?Follow me,” said the House-Dog.?
On the way, the Wolf noticed a wearing away of the House-Dog’s neck?hair from a collar.?“My oh my, Cousin Dog, what happened to your neck?” cried the Wolf.?
“Oh, that is where my Master puts a collar?upon me at night?to keep me chained?up.”
“Good-bye to you then, Cousin?Dog. The pang of hunger in my stomach is much preferred to the clang of a chain to my neck."
Moral of the Story: He who feeds us makes us his slave. ("Qui nos pascit, nos servum suum facit.") To be free has a fee.
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Introduction ?- The Essential Aesop -?Epilogue
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Why We Loved It:?Aesop reminds us that nothing is free, and that benefits tend to have burdens. Nature, such as we know it, abhors utopia, but provides for those who work for it. [1] The vigilant are wise to be skeptical of offers that create systemic dependency. Reality is that the wages of life, are, well, in the real world, someone's wages. It does not follow that the nobility in feeding others adduces nobility in being fed by others. He that giveth, is he who can command the cost or taketh away. [2, 3, 4]
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness." ~ Thomas Jefferson?
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"Qui nos pascit, nos servum suum facit." ("He who feeds us makes us his slave.") ~grz
*?Gregg Zegarelli , Esq., earned both his Bachelor of Arts Degree and his Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His dual major areas of study were History from the College of Liberal Arts and Accounting from the Business School (qualified to sit for the CPA examination), with dual minors in Philosophy and Political Science. He has enjoyed Adjunct Professorships in the Duquesne University Graduate Leadership Master Degree Program (The Leader as Entrepreneur; Developing Leadership Character Through Adversity) and the University of Pittsburgh Law School (The Anatomy of a Deal). He is admitted to various courts throughout the United States of America.
Gregg Zegarelli , Esq.,?is Managing Shareholder of?Technology & Entrepreneurial Ventures Law Group, PC .?Gregg is nationally rated as "superb" and has more than 35 years of experience working with entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes, including startups,?INC. 500, and publicly traded companies.?He is author of?One: The Unified Gospel of Jesus ,?and?The Business of Aesop ? article series, and co-author with his father,?Arnold Zegarelli , of?The Essential Aesop: For Business, Managers, Writers and Professional Speakers .?Gregg is a frequent lecturer, speaker and faculty for a variety of educational and other institutions.?
? 2013 Arnold Zegarelli? and?Gregg Zegarelli, Esq . ?Gregg can be contacted through?LinkedIn .?Arnold Zegarelli ?can be contacted through?Facebook .
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