There was once a land where everyone was a thief.  At night each thief armed with a crossbow and a lantern went to work, burgling his neighbours.  Just before dawn he would return with the stolen goods to find that his house too had been burgled.
Everyone lived in harmony, and nobody was poor.  One person robbed another, and that one robbed the next and the last robbed the first.  In this land the government was corrupt.  It was a criminal organisation stealing from the people, while the people cheated the government.  Life was untroubled, people were neither rich nor poor.
One day a stranger came to this land, strange indeed, for an honest man he was.  At night instead of going out and robbing his neighbour he would stay at home and smoke his pipe.  When the thieves turned up outside they saw the lights on so they went home.   The honest man was soon told that it was all right  for him to live a life of ease but he was preventing others from working.  For every night that he stayed at home, a family received no income. 
The honest man felt he was at fault and so he went to the local pub at night, and let the thieves go to work in his house.  He would come home and find few of his possessions left.  After a few nights of this the honest man found himself starving and without any money.  He was to blame, if only he had been a thief and not an honest man he would be rich.
The honest man disrupted the robbing chain in which everyone was equal.  The honest man had not gone out and robbed any home, so there was a thief who came home to find his own home intact.  This thief then decided it would be better to stay at home and guard what he had.  Now there was another thief somewhere who came home at dawn to find his home intact, and he also stayed at home and guarded what he had.  A   few thieves thought the same way, soon the other thieves discovered that they were being robbed at night, but they did not rob the guarded houses and son they became poor because they received no income in return for their lost goods. 
Now the thieves were divided into rich and poor.  The rich now employed the poor to rob for them.  The rich now got richer and the poor stayed poor.  Everyone now talked about how rich or how poor they were and not about stealing or about being robbed.   They were still a bunch of thieves though.  There was only ever one honest man and he soon died of …. Starvation of course!