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There are two lessons in the boy who cried wolf. Every day the boy would cry wolf and eventually the towns people stopped believing him. Then a wolf came and t
by r3trohack3r 4y ago
There are two lessons in the boy who cried wolf.
Every day the boy would cry wolf and eventually the towns people stopped believing him. Then a wolf came and the boy had already lost his credibility so nobody believed him. Then the wolf ate all the sheep.
The first lesson is the boy’s, don’t burn trust by crying wolf.
The second lesson is the town’s. They let the boy desensitize them to wolves and now all their sheep are dead.
- oblio 4y agoThere's too many "boys crying wolf" talking about economics for any of them to be trustworthy. You are either cautious and follow responsible financial principles or you don't. No amount of "boys crying wolf" will sway you one way or another, when 99.99999% of the time they're wrong anyway, or worse, they have a vested interest in you following along with what they're saying, and they want you do it it at this <<exact>> moment.
- staticman2 4y agoWell, you just inspired me to look up the story, and the sheep are scattered, not dead, because obviously a single wolf wouldn't eat all the sheep. It would be an odd story if the lesson is "always believe people who don't tell the truth."