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

  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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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Read OP’s post again, it literally says “carrot and stick”.

      I’m not about to nitpick my life experience with someone that’s probably never rode a horse or donkey in their life, doesn’t know how to read, and goes to Google for all their information.

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      • irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dude no one’s arguing about your life experience, it’s just irrelevant.

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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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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carrot_and_s…

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      • Evthestrike@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Dude the Wikipedia article proves that both metaphors are correct

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      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can just go look at the sources of the article man.

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