| Show PARABLE OF THE TANK A certain man owned a water tank capacity gallons Ral lons ile he employed 10 men each to place DID ce gallons dally daily in tile tho tank each drew 50 gallons as aa his dally daily ray pay the owner drow per day clay of which was waa for over overhead henI and depreciation or ro replacement placement cost coat of tile the tank and for hla his personal living expenses in ili 10 days daya there wore were net gallons lit in the tank eight f eglit ot wo tho nion wort happy and contented hut but two saw overproduction a little ways off and became worried after another 10 days there were gallons in ili tho the tank tho downor proposed to lay oft off 6 men mei but they asked to continue working on oil halftime half time basis at the same rate of pay tho the owner now worried for lie he had no market for his product IIo llo ho he carried on oil tor for another 60 days and then the tank was full the workers wore were full of consternation the owner lull full of apprehension tor for tile the men came to him and bald how flow are wo we to support our starving loved otiest buea the leaders argued that they had paid for tile tho tank with what they termed surplus value and now morally owned it jointly with their employer and demanded unemployment insurance and a more equitable distribution of oc the wealth they should produce in ili tile tho It iture whereupon tho the owner ison sing tile tho situation made one a judge one a lawyer another a 11 sherlia and yot yet another a su perill tended tax collector and general easlino las Iss lino injo lie he authorized a tax on the contents of 0 tile tank to pay for tile tho of 0 the social order hoy were creating tile tho tax was waa gallons of water n flay day ot of which the judge received gallons tho the lawyer tho the sheriff 75 tho the gen CO 60 while 30 gallons went to tile the sheriff for cor tile the food of three workers put in jail all for creating labor disturbance tile tho owner continued to draw 20 gallons for personal persona needs plus overhead and replacement cost coat tho the contents of the tank now having been consumed to 2000 gallons 3 of tile the men inon w who had borrowed heavily from tile tho owner while out of work and 2 ot of those who had been in ili jail resumed borik with a simple device de alce 1 I ot of the 3 had invented in ili jail production increased threefold and the inventor unusual for an inventor irow a royalty and retired the dally production with the now device was 1600 gallons the 6 5 workers ench each drow GO 60 gallons a lay day or gallons the owner ho inventor tile the judge law sheriff and it ii lay making it total of 0 1035 gal lons ions showing a new dally profit of rations gallons for tile downor tile the profits wore were greater and ancl tho the cycle of overproduction versus under consumption was much shorter in 10 lays daya there were 60 10 gal lona ions in ili the tank A cut cat in ili hours from froin 8 to 4 with a aday week was waa mado made lint but tile tha tank was soon filled |
