Or just desserts. Whatever works in a post-literate world.
Not really. Just deserts is marginally more correct than the public usage of just desserts.
The writer meant deserts, and he is correct. Deserts are barren places, that are hard to survive in, so the grasshoppers got their just deserts. Meaning they got nothing because they did nothing to obtain them and they didn’t know how to keep them. In the end they gained nothing.
I thought he was being figurative... and it was a play on words
Just desserts is a common phrase
But in this case desert being a wasteland of socialism was apt.
Or a retired English teacher had a Brain cramp