Nogget
Tuesday 25th May 2010 9:42pm
Brighton
6,626 posts
Quote: bigfella @ May 25 2010, 10:20 PM BST
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.
But in fact, both the gazelle and the lion spend as little time as possible running. The lion will sleep most of the day, and will only run if the gazelle is easy enough to catch. The gazelle will graze as much as it can, laert yes, but expending as little energy as possible. Humans alone do more work than necessary, being motivated by things like the work ethic.