Wine or Water??The issue with climate change
There was once a king who was visiting a town. In preparation for the king’s visit the town decided to fill a giant barrel with wine and present it to the king upon his arrival. Where were they going to get so much wine to fill the giant barrel? They came up with a brilliant idea; each family of the town would bring one flask filled with wine and pour it into the giant barrel and this way the barrel would fill with wine.
They placed a Giant barrel in the centre of the town with a ladder reaching to the top and every day people lined up to pour their flask of wine into the barrel.
The day finally arrived and the king visited the town. The people were so excited to present the king with this wonderful gift. The king was shown the barrel and was given a kingly goblet. They filled his goblet with wine from the giant barrel. The towns people were shocked by the look on the king’s face as he drank the wine, the king was obviously very unhappy. When asked why he was so unhappy he responded, “It’s just plain water”.
It turns out that each family thought to themselves why should I be the one to pour in a flask of wine I will pour in water instead, I am sure no one will notice if there is just one flask of water among all that wine. Everyone in the town made the same calculation and so no one poured in wine but rather water instead.
Everyone was relying on someone else.
Imagination serving people and strategy, by creating awareness of possibilities
5 年This made me remember 3 things: 1) An example of “entropy” : When you put a spoon of wine in a barrel of sewage water, you get… sewage water. When you put a spoon of sewage water in a barrel of wine, you get… sewage water ?? 2) During WWII there were quite some accidents with parachutes not opening. This lasted till somebody had the brilliant idea of forcing parachute folders to take the occasional jump themselves. (A few years ago, I saw a vacancy for parachute folder, from the Australian armed forces, where taking the occasional jump was still mentioned as part of the job.) 3) One day a witch was trying to drink from the village's well. The king was scared she would poison it, so he had his guards chase her away. That the night the witch returned and pored a potion in the well that would make everybody who drank the water crazy. The next day, everybody in the village drank from the well, except for the king. The king was drinking wine. After a good night’s rest, the entire village woke up in panic. Their king had become crazy…
I walk through the woods thinking about blockchain
5 年Also known as the tragedy of the commons...