This is a wrap on the post, you can check the initial part here
Being Accountable
The failure to fulfill the master's expectations brought the damnation to the Servant. The master had expected everyone to trade and by extension - made profits from the allocated talents on his return. The logical explanation of the 1-talent man was buoyed on an extra layer of accountability.
He returned the talent intact. Whole time value of money has made me understand that his action, because of elapsed time, amounts to destroying value.
There still seem to exists a strong sense of good judgement in his actions - he assessed the safety of holding on to the talents while waiting for the return of his hard master and to avoid the risk of spending the talent - he kept it underground.
Have you tried to retrieve the money you gave out to friends and family for a supposed "investment "?
From my experience, it is easier to make a camel go through the needle's eye than get your funds back in most situations.
But this 1-talent man, apart from inflation eating into the value of the talent, kept and returned the talent in whole.