I know you are trying to be a smart-ass here, but look - what if the grasshopper doesn't know how to find supplies in summer because he never got that training? The grasshopper in your allegory has that problem. You are comparing the bourgeois ant with a proletariat grasshopper (sorry for the commie lingo, and while I detest commies, in this case, had to borrow their words). The grasshopper needs support because it doesn't have a voice. The will of the ants can easily overpower the interests of the grasshopper (some ants are known to kill and eat larger insects like grasshoppers when they hunt in packs).
A poor farmer who is moved from the flood-basin of the sardar sarovar project and given land that is of sub-standard quality as compared to his old land on the banks of the narmada has every right to be disgruntled. Unfortunately for him, no-one cares until a bourgeois ant like Patkar or Roy make their case known to other ants, many of whom don't care. Sardar sarovar will feed millions, but if it starves a few thousand in the process, the government has failed.
In fact, the grasshopper works harder than the ant. It's just that the ant has been supplied with knowledge that helps it to get supplies a lot more efficiently. Any idea how hard farmers have to work to make their 1.5 square meals?
