That is a fantastic parable for greed and endless hunger if I ever imagined one: that tasty asteroid looks so good, let's just bring it a little closer.
You seem to imply that there's something bad or dangerous about greed and endless hunger. Without those, there would be no life. You could almost say they're the meaning of life. Perhaps a more direct parable would be "A poor person starves to death by not trying hard enough to find food."
