Good morning, David!

What an interesting post. I confess that I don't get to read your posts as often as I'd like. I came across your profile by chance, in one of the challenges that Pauline launched about a year and a half ago, perhaps the squats challenge. Do you remember it?

Well, I noticed at the time that you had some very interesting posts. And today's is another of your posts that make us think for ourselves.

When I read the title, I thought it would be something more specific, given the image you used to illustrate it, but then I was positively surprised when I saw that you used fables and folk tales to make your point about much of what is going on in this field of cryptocurrencies.

Proverbs, fables and tales are all elements that take us back to the most primordial thing we have. Our most ancestral memories. We all had parents, grandparents or friends who told us these tales. And no matter how many times we heard them, we always ended up enjoying hearing them again, not because we expected a different outcome, but because they resonated so perfectly with what life showed us on an almost daily basis.

I remember very well my grandmother telling the fable of the “King goes naked”. I always liked the way she always managed to add something different, but in essence it was the fear of being ridiculed or belittled by others when we don't fully trust our abilities or our relationships.

I didn't know the parable of Chuang Tzu's Foolish Monkey, but it's actually one that makes the most sense in this context. Because we crave a better return so much, we don't mind sacrificing a better alternative for one that brings us exactly the same, but in which we get more now!