It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.
Onecannotbutbe troubled by the discrepancy between their blanket condemnations and the assessment of those with genuine experience of making tough decisions in times of combat.
But there is one deadline that cannotbe put off: unless they are fixed in the meantime, millions of computers and other pieces of electronic equipment will go haywire at midnight on the last day of 1999.