under a tree by a river

Here is a nice tidbit i heard a few weeks ago.  a true story.  as true as stories get, anyways.

There was a man somewhere in Africa.  He wasn’t very old, and he wasn’t very young.  He spent his days sitting under a tree beside a river.  People would often arrive at the river and need to get across.  One day a white man from somewhere in the Western world came by.  He said to the man under the tree, “You know what you should do, get a boat and start charging people a fare for a ride across the river.  Then, after a while, you can hire someone to take people across the river for you, and you can sit here just making money.”

The old man thought for a second and said, “So you want me to work really hard just so I can keep doing what I’m already doing?”