The AMERICAN Rainbow Fish

I make a few changes to the original socialist picture book, making The Rainbow Fish fit for American children's impressionable ears. Marcus Pfister's classic story edited by an American, for Americans!

Music:
"Great Big Sled (Lullaby to the Killers)" by Rockabye Baby!"
"Human" by the Killers

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• the
• rainbow
• fish
• marcus
• pfister
• socialist
• communism
• american
• capitalism
• free
• market
• government
• control
• capital

[psychopkerz]

This made my day.

[tegthethird]

@psychopkerz I'm glad!

[LukanMacto]

Hahaha I loved this Tommy! I thought it was very funny and a great change to the story.

[tegthethird]

@LukanMacto Thanks!

[skyhighgames]

Very clever... I got a good chuckle out of this. And like the original story, your version is a nice fairy tale where everyone gets what they want in the end and lives happily ever after.

But I do have a question for you. Have you gotten permission from Marcus Pfister and the Killers to create a derivative work based on their intellectual property and distribute portions of their original works to the public for free?

Never mind, I'm sure you did. Otherwise, that would be... socialism!

[tegthethird]

@skyhighgames Google "Fair use."

If Pfister or the Killers have a problem with it, they know where to find me.

[Focrak]

Here's a flaw i see in the rainbow fish's rationalization:

although the story doesn't do any background, one can only assume that the rainbow fish was born with these scales out of mere genetic luck, and so had an advantage over the others in terms of having a captive source of wealth he didn't have to work for since the beggining.

Rightfully his they do were, but one can argue that he didn't deserve the fortune he received from the other fish only because of sheer luck at birth.

[Focrak]

@Buergs323 i actually meant wealth inheritance, not genetic luck per se. Don't be so obvious ;3

[Buergs323]

@Focrak

I wanna be like LeBron James. That's an unfair advantage. Wah! I want LeBron James's physical abilities! PLEEEAAASE!!!

Don't be an idiot,...

[Outsiderkaa]

hahahahaha I have like 3 books about this fish hahahahahh i used to read them over and over again when i was young

[Focrak]

@tyrfing19 the fuck you talkin about?

It is NOT the same thing to compare the things you are mentioning, which require countless hours of physical training plus innate abilities (although it has been discovered that the former is the most important trait of a succesful sportsman),than an unpredictable, random and undeserving outcome of genetic breeding.

My point was about intergenerational wealth inheritance, which is a major source of unfair income inequaliy. Example: Paris Hilton.

[tyrfing19]

@Focrak What about the genetic luck of supermodels and football players? Do you think it's unfair and should be taken away?

[aed939]

To be fair, the original version was not about wealth redistribution, but about private charitable giving. This is because there was not a government tax shark that forced rainbow fish to give up half of his scales to redistribute to the other fish. This capitalist version was good. The rainbow fish could have also hired the little fish to do a job if it had no money.

[hawaiijim]

@skyhighgames Parody doesn't require a copyright-holder's permission.

[Fingloven]

The little rainbow fish invested his money in the south sea company, offering fantastic returns and allowing him to play with his friends. Unfortunately, the company proved to be a bubble, and he lost all of his money, leaving him with only one scale and a group of friends who were now much poorer. "Oh", he thought "how much happier I would have been if I'd simply realised my utility function was not a linear function of scales and money, and simply given them away"