“Picture two brothers, ten years apart in age, who win a contract to provide an Old Italian village with drinking water. As there is no water flowing to the Village they are paid by the number of buckets they carry each day from the river to the village; a distance of 500 meters. For twenty years they carry thousands of buckets day-in and day-out regardless of the weather.
In return for their hard labour they make a good living and are able to eat well, provide for their families and live in nice homes and there is only one condition to maintaining the lifestyle they have come to enjoy and that is they must carry those buckets each day.
When they first started their buckets we’re smaller and they found that by carrying bigger buckets they could move more water in less time and instead of working 14 hours per day they were able to reduce their work time to 12 hours and make the same amount of money. If they worked the full 14 hours they had the ability to make more money than the other villagers and it was all because they were carrying bigger buckets.
As they aged the eldest brother found that his body would get tired and he could not carry buckets like he did when he was younger and his earnings started to decline. He thought about his options and realized that his best course was to stop carrying buckets and invest his savings in building a pipeline from the river to the village. He asked his younger brother to join him in project, who was unwilling to interrupt his income as he was used to living the good life provided by carrying buckets each day.
It took the eldest brother ten years to build his pipeline as he still tried to carry some buckets, although he could not carry the big buckets like his brother, or with the same frequency and it showed in his earnings which were much lower.
But when the pipeline was finished his younger brother was now starting to get tired and was unable to stop working or he would have no income where the eldest brother was now making more money than his best year carrying the big buckets and he no longer had to carry any buckets. He was free to do whatever he wanted to do and didn’t have to work and he was making money even while he was sleeping for the pipeline was always running, even while he slept.”
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