In the 1950s, the world got together and decided that they run an experiment in which they would permit a few individuals to control the world; they called this small group, the Oligarchy family. It was argued, at the time, that allowing this would cause no ill effects, and would actually improve things, that common sense would prevail, and we would all live happily ever after.
But just before the end of the meeting, a little bright girl shyly raised her hand and asked to make one last contribution. The contribution was that, in the year 2014, the impact of the decision they had just made, should be assessed and steps be put in place to remedy the situation in case, by some unforeseen circumstances, things didn’t work out as planned.
You see, this little girl was reading a good book on risk management, and figured, why not add a clause just in case things didn’t work out. But I think she was also a bit sceptical about all the talk about trickle-down effects that the people in the meeting were so passionately discussing.
Those at the meeting didn’t see how this was possible – an idea that the whole world had agreed on being wrong, and it so happened that a professor from one of the established universities provided statistics, he had come prepared, the statistics showed that such a thing was not possible, or more accurately, it would only happen once in a squillion years.
But fortunately, the people still believed in the idea of everyone being heard, and so, without much delay or fanfare, the clause was added; to assess the impact of the decision, and convene on the 16th of May 2014 to propose possible steps to remedy the solution; and with that, the meeting was brought to a close.