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If you had a donkey that could change a tire, would you exploit him for $ ....

Well, it would definitely have to be a trade-off and I'm sure it wouldn't take anything *too* expensive to buy the food to please a donkey...
 


<< employers world wide do that on a daily basis don't they ? 🙂 >>


Yeah, but my boss wouln't *own* me the way that a person owns a donkey...the donkey's not free to quit like people would be.

It would be up to me to make sure the whole system's Pareto efficient...no problem with me getting more money as long as the donkey's no worse off than if he were doing no tire-changing.
 


<< Donkeys have opposable thumbs? >>


Strangely, this puts the thread in proper perspective.
 


<< Donkeys have opposable thumbs? >>


Of course not! That's why you could charge so much to see him changing the tire 😉
 
Uhmm, what's your point??

Nevermind, here's my point... 😀

A priest wanted to raise money for his church. When told that there was a fortune in horse racing, he decided to purchase a racehorse and enter it in the races. However, at the local auction, the going price for horses was so high that he ended up buying a donkey instead. He figured that since he had it, he might just as well go ahead and enter it in the races. To his surprise, the donkey came in third! The next day the local paper carried this headline: PRIEST'S ASS SHOWS...

The priest was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and this time it won. The paper read: PRIEST'S ASS OUT IN FRONT...

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the priest not to enter the donkey in another race. The paper headline read: BISHOP SCRATCHES PRIEST'S ASS...

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the priest to get rid of the donkey. The priest decided to give the donkey to a nun in a nearby convent. The paper headline the next day read: NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN...

The Bishop fainted. He informed the nun she couldn't keep the donkey. She sold the donkey to a farmer for $10. Next day the headline read: NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10...

This was too much for the Bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the donkey, lead it to the plains where it could run wild and free. Next day, the headline in the paper reads: NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE...

The Bishop was buried the next day.


I normally don't like to make religious jokes but I suppose this ones ok since I'm not catholic. 😉
 
Nope. I believe that making something do something it doesn't want to do is mean. The only thing that I would make do something it didn't want to do is a human being, because they would be able to tell me that they don't like it, and they are supposedly able to think of a way to get out of such a situation.
 


<< Nope. I believe that making something do something it doesn't want to do is mean. The only thing that I would make do something it didn't want to do is a human being, because they would be able to tell me that they don't like it, and they are supposedly able to think of a way to get out of such a situation. >>


Yes, but if you compensated the donkey for time spent changing tires...then changing tires would become something he *does* want to do
 


<< are you referring to "SmirnoffisTasty"? if you are, i don't think he could change a tire. >>


Well duh...that's why this is a hypothetical question 🙂
 


<< *cough* double standard *cough* >>


I don't see what you're trying to say.

People work underneath bosses and have the choice to leave or not...donkeys have no such choice
 
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