How is it that Aesop figured this out 2,600 years ago but this wisdom is ignored in favour of “Greed is Good II”?
A CERTAIN MAN had the good fortune to possess a Goose that laid him a Golden Egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the Goose, and cutting her open, found her - just what any other goose would be!
Moral: Much wants more, and loses all.
Aesop 620 B.C. - 560 B.C.
Source: Aesop’s Fables Copyright 1881 WM. L. Allison, New York
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A parallel observation - every good farmers knows you can’t just keep cropping the same paddocks year after year. You must rotate your crops and let a paddock recover or permanently damage it.
That wisdom is encoded in The Bible - Leviticus 25:3–4
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Ask yourself - is my nation being golden goosed? What can I do about it?
Is the rapid rollout of AI going to golden goose us all?
The benefits of AI must be widespread and accessible to the masses, or we risk the collapse of our current economic and social compact.
It doesn’t mean everyone needs to use AI but that everyone in some manner benefits.
Having AI accelerate wealth inequality and disadvantage is the worst of all worlds.
