Fable

A researcher decided to run an experiment. He took one hundred chimpanzees and put them in cages. The cages had plenty of food and lots of buttons. In each of the cages, one of the buttons was connected to an ICBM system with enough firepower to destroy the world.

"What a stupid fable!", you interrupt. "What kind of idiot would put the power to destroy the world in the hands of a bunch of chimpanzees?"

But, really, how different is that from what is happening right now?