The social role of stories is to convey values, in a playful way, so that this lesson is never forgotten, as the story activates the emotional and imaginative memory, which makes it permanent. That's why the best stories are always children's and, therefore, the best values ​​can be passed on to the little ones!

A very old tale, which always teaches a fundamental value to humanity, is always classic: the ant and the cicada.

Aesop, a source of Thrace, born in the mid 600s BC, was famous for the oral and written tales told to the children of his Greek masters as a slave in Greece.

The very concept of slavery, in the Hellenistic era, is totally different from the term in the contemporary world.

Herodotus, the historian, gathered many of these - attributing it to Aesop - and released a compendium, such was the depth of the lessons contained in them. Another example of a tale: the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Remarkably, these tales teach subtle but essential economic lessons for any future adult in a world that was beginning to discover that commerce was more than simple exchanges of goods and values.

Jean de La Fontaine, in the 17th century, recapitulates these tales and modernizes them to the vision of that time - also lacking in certain foundations. Remember: mercantilism began to decay, renaissance began to rise, and the foundations of society began to change.

In this context, how to teach children economic values, not theocentric ones, such as stock, limits, supply and demand and savings? Aesop's tales!

In the story, from Aesop's vision, a cicada sings during the summer, while the ants work to accumulate provisions in their anthill.

When winter arrives, the cicada, helpless and hungry, asks the ants for some food, even if it is leftovers.

To which, the ants ask: "what did you do during the summer?", the cicada then answers, who had not had time to gather food because "it made the environment happy by singing to lighten the weight of the ants' work", to which the ants they retort that it was counted in the summer, that it danced in the winter.

From Aesop was the lesson of saving for the difficulties of winter (and it is from this tale that the fortune for summer and the scarcity for winter is made symbolic), storing, storing, so as not to perish. Just like that.

It seems cruel these days, but logical concepts permeated Hellenistic life and fatalism is one of its conclusions. There is no concept of good or evil there, or of junk versus laziness. No, just the logical result of the actions of two distinct activities.

Note, dear reader, that this tale certainly generated in your consciousness a series of moral "IF". Like the ant had no pity, the cicada was a slut, well done for a cicada, but ants! Right? This is the main difference from Hellenistic, anthropocentric thinking to contemporary, pseudo anthropocentric with theocentric characteristics. No value judgment, but just try to look at the logic: either the ants give in and will have to starve with the Cicada at the end of their stocks, or they stick to purpose. In the case of the cicada, the fortitude of fate, if it survives, will change its position. That's what is expected.

The modern synthesis can be found, for example, in Star Trek, The Wrath of Khan, 1982. Where Spock, at one point speaks, "The fates of the many trump the fates of the few!" It's the same concept told light years away!

In the English perception of the tale, in the middle of 170, in the first industrial revolution, there is a second corollary: "one should not neglect in any work, his effort, to avoid sadness and dangers in the results".

The French perception, by La Fontaine, puts one more economic and social concept: "never lend anything to anyone! Your survival depends on it!"

Both views are icons of a changing world, showing that millenary western theocentrism was giving way to rationalism and the anthropocentric rescue of the renaissance and the industrial and scientific force that is beginning to emerge.

Elementary principles of economics told to children. In France and, more generally, Europe, such tales are told from an early age.

Checking some movements in the financial world, this tale becomes very clear.

The main monetary binaries: EUR/USR, EUR/GBP, for example, are indexed not only by national backing but also by mineral reserves, commodities such as oil, copper, aluminum, silver, gold and, more recently, green environmental credits and of carbon.

It seems unrelated but it is the modern way to store supplies for the winter.

Critics of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies argue that this is the main obstacle for a cryptocurrency, in the state it is in today, to become a de facto currency: there is no way to adhere to this concept of commodities in digital currencies.

So, in general, the explanation can be summarized as follows: if the world ends and electricity disappears, the next day whoever has the greatest amount of accumulated real inputs becomes the new king of the planet!

In this view, cryptocurrencies would no longer exist and all digital wealth would disappear!

You can't condemn this vision having 4500 different nuclear warheads in the world, under the most different controls and worldviews!

Indeed, apparently, digital wars leave the field of espionage and hackers - they are still playing their part in this new world - but the skirmishes now happen where it hurts the most for nations: in your pocket!

The digital financial market - whether cryptocurrencies or electronic exchanges - handles 2/3 of the entire world financial volume. The breakdown of this movement would lead many countries to bankruptcy!

This terrain is as disputed today, as in the beginning of the 20th century the colonies of Africa were disputed by the colonial powers. The result of this is in the history of the 20th century.

The advantage, if there is one in a digital war, is that no one dies from radiation. But many will starve! I do not know what's worse.

Cryptocurrencies are the new digital colonies to be exploited by the new digital colonialist powers.

Being cicada or ant, in this digital world, everyone can end up dying in the coming winter!

Which creature you most resemble will determine your survival in the cold!

Good harvest, or singing, to all of us!