Too good to be true?
According to Aesop's fables, a man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose that laid a golden egg every day. But they wanted to get rich fast. Imagining that the goose must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it and get all of the precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose - no gold inside! Their greed made them believe in an illusion, and they lost both the goose and the daily golden egg.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need,
but not every man's greed.
-Mahatma Gandhi

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else,
that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
- Henry Thoreau

Bruno's commentary
Not much has changed in 2600 years! "Make $10,000 in just one week!" or "Grow your hair back in only six weeks" or "Quadruple your money in the stock market in only 30 days guaranteed!" The fact that such blatant lies are believed over and over again shows that the greed Aesop warned about still exists today. Why else would clever marketers use them at all? We have to be careful to protect ourselves from get-rich-fast schemes and train ourselves not to blindly believe what is presented to us. If it sounds too good to be true, it is!

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