Not accurate.
The corporate solution is to add more carts to whip the whipping boy, lest he not whip the horse enough.
Eh, sometimes the corporate solution is to add more horses, just not horses that are immediately (or sometimes ever) useful. Horses that have maybe never pulled a cart before or have only ever pulled carts solo. Horses that need a month of training to be able to contribute meaningfully, often through no fault of their own, but are told that this cart needs to be pulled out of the mud in two weeks. And then when the original horses tell the cart driver that it’s going to take a month to get everyone up to speed, they completely miss the point and ask how many more horses we need.
A hundred horses, all pulling in different directions.
That’s the employees sanity in the middle.
It’d still work, due to brownian horse motion
Hey I’m a wagon consultant and I’ll show you what you’re doing wrong for a small fee
Job security FTW!
To clarify, that means “For The Whips”. 🤪
When there’s a whip, there’s a way
What we hoped for:
What we got:
Where does one buy a good quality pair of assless chaps in 2025?
Inside the USA: “in this tariff economy, urgh!? 😞”
Everywhere else: “probably made in China 🇨🇳”
Corporates: well yeah, enough whipping should make the horse move, and more whips should make it move faster than one whip, so what’s the problem? Also, make sure the bottled water in the chariot is Essentia because I own stock in Nestle.
Now the corporate solution is to try and replace the horse with AI and sink further
Almost. The corporate solution nowadays is for the guy who owns all of the carts to replace the horses with AI, fire half of the drivers, then demand the remaining drivers take two carts every trip.
Sounds like a train to me.
It always gets there
Except a train needs stronger engines. You’d need a long string of carts with horses attached left and right doing the pulling. You’d need less drivers though.
It’s wild that the metaphor would still work.
Replace the man in the cart with the “cloud” AI and the one horse would be capable of removing the wagon without the weight of the man, and the whip.
It could even generate phrases for the like “You’re absolutely Neigh”
But that’s not how we will use AI…
Alternate corporate solution: they add carts, equipped with driver and horses. They all share the mud equally, and the managers wonder why they’re still not progressing.
The mythical man-month.
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You could also get out of the wagon and help pull, maybe unload the wagon too
Having ridden in Ye Olde Wagons before, this is actually what you should do.
Get out, unload whatever weight you can, and make the wagon as light as possible, then you try to get it out by unburying the wheels and putting something hard for them to roll on.
we had 2x10 boards (and a few small 2x4 chunks) in the wagon and shovels, as the route we were using was through cow pastures and corn fields.
yeah this meme has always bothered me cause who tf thinks the obvious solution to such a temporary problem is go buy two more horses?? It would probably be faster to unload the cart and carry the items by hand
How old is this? Gotta be at least boomer humor, but I’ve seen this since I was a kid.
It’s a scan of a carbon copy of a physical picture… I know this specific kind of primordial copier-based proto-meme distribution from the 80’s and 90’s, but not after that any more.
So l would say, quite probably a still somewhat relevant leftover from the previous century…
Real solution: whipper also pushes cart out of mud.
The new solution has a chatbot delving into whipping strategy and toadying the whippers.
In my experience, the corporate solution has been to stack horses on top of each other and wonder why the first horse that struggled is moving even slower.
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