[001sky]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

[eru]

The boiling frog is about as bad as low hanging fruit.

(The frog would jump out of slowly heating water, and picking the low hanging fruit first is a sure-fire way to get fired from your fruit-picker job.)

[vermillion]

What's the problem with picking the low hanging fruit first?

[eru]

The higher fruit are ripe first.