As usual I’m stuck in traffic again. There is a crossing and vehicles are standing in every which direction with no direction. Everyone wants their right of way and no one is willing to wait.
There are a few individuals who have volunteered to steer the traffic and clear the jam but sadly no one listens to them. It is depressing when people are not willing to even make use of a service which is being offered for free.
What then is the solution? The solution given below is paradoxic and that’s why it is so difficult to accept.
“To reach faster, give way.”
This simple statement epitomises what the problem is and also what the solution could be. If everyone wants to be the first, no one eventually will. But if you let the other person make the first move, who knows you may be reaching home first.
But given the collective ‘wisdom’ of crowds, the status quo is probably the way its going to be. People will dismiss this suggestion as idealistic or too much to expect.
Strange are the minds of humans. Willing to overlook the simplest of solutions in search of more complex alternatives.
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If your solution should work, the premise is that people are sensible enough to listen to the individuals who volunteer to steer the traffic..
Hence proved, that your solution is impossible
Listening to the volunteers doesn’t require a shred of intelligence. Only some common-sense, which as they say, is not so common. Hence a difficult task.
Reading this post brings to my mind one wise saying heard in DoMS a couple of years ago…
“Individual Convinience, Collective Inconvinience” – GOD
No prize for guessing the faculty and the course though…
crisp and lovely !!