This story is just an analogy.


A woman in a village inherited a gold grinding stone from her mother. The gold grinding stone had no use to her other than to grind pepper, tomatoes and other cooking items. She liked it because it was different from everyone else’s.

One day a white man came to this remote village and saw this woman grinding tomatoes with her gold grinding stone she inherited and sweating as when one grinds pepper with a grinding stone. In exchange for her gold grinding stone, the white man gave the woman a blender and an electricity generator.

The woman was very happy as she now grinds more tomatoes quicker in a less stressful manner. Moreover, she alone had such a grinder.

Was the white man a kind man, a business man or an exploiter?

If he did not let her know the value of her gold grinding stone or if the value of the blender and generator is not proportionate to the value of the grinding stone... then he is an exploiter


If she knows the value and agreed to the exchange then he is a business man


A kind man, however, would just give her a blender and generator without taking her gold grinding stone

izken:
This story is just an analogy.


A woman in a village inherited a gold grinding stone from her mother. The gold grinding stone had no use to her other than to grind pepper, tomatoes and other cooking items. She liked it because it was different from everyone else’s.

One day a white man came to this remote village and saw this woman grinding tomatoes with her gold grinding stone she inherited and sweating as when one grinds pepper with a grinding stone. In exchange for her gold grinding stone, the white man gave the woman a blender and an electricity generator.

The woman was very happy as she now grinds more tomatoes quicker in a less stressful manner. Moreover, she alone had such a grinder.

Was the white man a kind man, a business man or an exploiter?

Are you even asking?