Maybe this can help make it more obvious to understand what is going on with JBI-
Once upon a time,
A long time ago…
There was a blacksmith named Johnny that heard the legends of a chicken that produced golden eggs.
As the legend tells, the chicken was just an ordinary chicken, but it was fed ash from metal forging and somehow the ash was magically transformed and this otherwise ordinary chicken produced… golden eggs.
Well the blacksmith had a few chickens and produced a lot of ash… so he thought, what would be the harm in exploring the possibilities of proving the legend?
He carefully fed one of his chickens ash from his fire.. and nothing special happened. He was determined to discover the secret to this legend so he continued to feed all of his chickens ash for many days. Eventually, some of the chickens died, Johnny learned that there were about 9 types of ash that were commonly known but he only had 3 types in his cinders. He noticed that the chickens that died were eating #1 and #3 ash and found that the #8 ash did nothing for the chickens but make his coop a real mess.
One day a stranger passed through town and needed his horse re-shoed. The type of steel the horseshoes were made from was foreign to those parts but Johnny thought nothing of it… until the next day he noticed that this steel produced #2 #4 and #5 ash. Johnny was eager to feed his remaining chickens the new ash with the hopes of producing just one golden egg. With great excitement Johnny went about attempting to segregate the new ash from the bad ash, he didn’t want to lose any more chickens, but he was excited to test his newfound feedstock.
After feeding many days of ash he unfortunately lost more chickens due to cross contamination of the different types of ashes but before disposing of the dead chickens he noticed a glimmer from the hindquarters of on of his expired foul. Upon further observation and a bit of dissecting, low and behold… A GOLDEN EGG!
Johnny was so excited he nearly produced an egg himself… and so he set out to find a way to get his hands on some #2 #4 and #5 ash and some more chickens.
After showing his family and friends the golden egg Johnny’s ego was bloated and the thought of being rich was drooling down his chin.
Johnny traveled to the town where the stranger was from to find his coveted ash and for a few weeks he tinkered and trodden about feeding chickens and producing a few golden eggs… but to his dismay he began to notice that the original golden egg began to rust.
Rust!, how can this be?! Gold doesn’t rust?
Johnny sought the help of a local jeweler and he made many friends that enlisted in the search for riches. The jeweler studied the golden egg and found that the gold was actually a synthetic gold that was missing some of its chemistry. He concluded that it would completely rust away at a very rapid rate unless something could be done to fix the chemistry. “Can you fix the chemistry?” Johnny asked anxiously. “Its certainly worth a try” said the jeweler, and so they proceeded to move forward attempting to correct the flaw in their golden opportunity.
Johnny became worried that his dream of wealth was only that, a dream. However, his newfound friends saw an opportunity. “Look Johnny, the idea of a chicken that produces golden eggs can make us a lot of money” the friends said. “all we have to do is show people a fresh egg and show one being laid and we can get a lot of people to fund a huge chicken farm”. “But what happens when the eggs rust?” Johnny asks… “well it will take time to build our farm and in the mean time the jeweler can find an answer to the chemistry problem”. Johnny asks his friends “but what if he doesn’t”? “by that time we will be rich and powerful and it wont much matter then will it?” the friends conclude.
So they set out to raise money off of their well polished sales pitch traveling from town to town, “well step right up, see it with your own eyes, what we have here ladies and gentlemen is a chicken laying a genuine golden egg! Come one, come all, put your penny in the slot and collect your official certified certificate of ownership in Johnny’s Golden Ranch… Guaranteed to make each and every one of you wealthy beyond belief!”
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
So it turns out that the valuable secret #2, #4 and #5 ash is incredibly hard to separate from the other ash and the individual scattered locations where you find it are difficult to gather and bring back to their farm. Even worse Johnny and his friends find that the ash they need is the same ash that is used as fertilizer and all of the heavy ash producing locations are already sorting, bagging and selling it at a nice profit to farmers. An even bigger problem is that the chicken farmers everywhere are angry that everyone is stealing their chickens and killing them off feeding them common ash in hopes of getting rich when they already know that the golden eggs are a waste of a perfectly good egg since they have know for years that the golden eggs rust and no one wants bacon and rusty eggs in the morning..
“A fine mess we have gotten ourselves in” Johnny says, but his friends clamor “are you kidding, this is working out great, we have become rich, built a nice farm, made a lot of high-flut’n connections and we just might be able to ease our way out of this if we play our cards right… you just keep preaching about the golden egg and all that wasted ash and we will keep raising more money”. “Well why don’t we just produce golden eggs, then we won’t need to take those suckers money” “because the eggs are no good! And who wants to do all that work anyway ya hairbrain… now get back to preaching or we’ll find someone else to front the scam, er, I mean business endeav’er”
Things don’t get much better for our boys in the coming years… Eventually the chicken farmers have a meeting with the local sheriff and tip him off to the unethical practices… they just want the whole mess to go away so they can get back to raising chickens and not have to deal with the skyrocketing prices of chickens, theft, and devastation of the chicken population, their livelihood is threatened and they are not about to stand for it any longer. The sheriff sets out to put a stop to the charade.
