This is probably an ancient story, now widely circulating around the Internet. It’s a powerful tale, very appropriate for today.
Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the
villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs. 10/-
The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the
forest and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at Rs. 10/- and as supply started to diminish,
the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now
buy at Rs. 20/- This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started
catching monkeys again.
Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to
their farms. The OFFER rate increased to Rs. 25/- and the supply of
monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey,
let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he
had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on
behalf of him.
In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all
these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them
to you at Rs35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to
him for Rs. 50/-
The villagers squeezed up with all their savings and bought all the
monkeys.
Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys
everywhere!!!
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