You Don't Have Me (11)

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In Germany, there was a little town called Schilda, whose inhabitants could perform all sorts of clever little tricks. Within this town was a horse who could perform amazing feats of strength, but against whom the citizens had one objection - the horse ate too much and oats were expensive.

The townsfolk determined to break the horse of this habit by reducing its ration by a little bit each day until they had coaxed it into complete abstinence.

For awhile, things went great. The amount of grain being given to the horse was gradually reduced and the horse didn't seem to notice.

The horse was weaned to the point of only eating one handful of grain per day. On the next day it was given no oats at all and sent out to the fields to work, where it died. The citizens were unable to determine what the spiteful animal had died from.

Regarding the story of the horse, what I take from it is that you can't live on a diminishing diet. We can't support a M by paying less and less attention to it, nor we can we be supported if our S is giving us less and less attention. Eventually the M will die.

lodo, you're thinking way too hard. It merely means that if you want a work horse to work like a work horse you have to feed a work horse what a work horse requires to work like a work horse.