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Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later.

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The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later.

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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  • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee
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    Here’s a wiki link for you

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_and_stick

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      I asked for before the enshittification era.

      I’m not about to trust a controversial article that could have been manipulated by almost anyone these days.

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrot_and_stick&oldid=1111746136

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          I do appreciate you for looking into older references, but I was hoping for some articles from before the digital era, like a scan or three from a couple encyclopedias or other relevant articles before the modern digital era.

          Find me something from like 1950-60 and I might be more inclined to believe it. Other than that, given my life experience, I tend to believe what I literally learned on the horse ranch.

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            Honestly, people have given you examples. If you want examples from pre-internet then you should do some work yourself to find it.

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              I’ve known how to ride horses and donkeys since I was 6 years old, I grew up on a horse ranch.

              I don’t need no fucking examples dumbass, I lived it.

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                Here is a story from a ranch

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                  Funny you think you are.

                  You don’t hit a donkey or a horse with a stick, unless you want your face kicked in. Which actually happened on our ranch, thankfully not to me though.

                  You ever heard of a horse whip? Do you know how to use them? They’re usually over 8 feet long, and when swung, aimed and popped correctly, that pop exceeds the speed of sound, keeping the trainers at a safe distance with a safe advantage.

                  Wanna try again troll? I literally grew up on a horse ranch, and the proper tools of training horses and donkeys would rip your flesh open.

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                    Did your ranch ever become under siege?

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