Comment on 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.

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, seeing as how I grew up on a horse ranch, I can totally confirm the ‘cartoon logic’ you speak of is absolutely real, and is used to help train at least some donkeys and horses.

  It’s more like teasing them to go after something they can never have.

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  • palebluethought@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, again, I’m not saying that’s not a thing, man. Just that’s not what carrot vs stick metaphor is about

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Can you provide me a couple older references to this? Preferably before the year 2000, or at least before the AI and enshittification era?

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      • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s pretty intuitive from the saying. It’s the carrot OR the stick, not the carrot ON the stick. The carrot is the reward for doing the thing, the stick is the punishment for not doing it. Just google it.

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      • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Here’s a wiki link for you

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot_and_stick

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