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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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      • nexas_XIII@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People were trying to gently educate you on a metaphor and you decided anything pre-internet is a requirement. Then you keep talking about your lived experience when you got it wrong. Then you attack people when they said they’re not going to do work for you and if you want info you can look it up yourself. You got some real boomer energy my guy/gal.

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      • irmoz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The metaphor is not about how to ride horses or donkeys.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here is a story from a ranch

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