A Talent
for Failure
(after Matthew 25:14-30)
Once
upon a time, a Boss was about to go abroad, so he called his three employees
and gave each a dozen golden talents to invest until his return.
Upon
his return, the first employee said, “I invested a dozen talents in a
real-estate bubble. The bubble burst, and nothing remains.”
The
second employee said, “I invested a dozen talents in an imperial adventure, but
the war was lost, and nothing remains.”
The
third employee said, “I buried the dozen talents in the back-yard, for the
world is full of thieves. Here are your dozen talents.”
The
Boss paid the first two employees two dozen talents each, for they were too big
to fail; but he dismissed the third employee, for lack of innovation.
That
third employee then founded a company of his own, which remained in business long
after the Boss’s company went bankrupt.
Moral: You get what you pay for.
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