In one village there lived a lonely old man. In the evenings, local boys played near his house. The games, as usual, were accompanied by loud screams. The old man got tired of this, and one evening he invited the boys to his place. He told them how much he liked to listen to loud children's voices, and promised to give each of them 100 rubles if they promised to come tomorrow. The guys came and played even more fun and noisily. The old man paid them and promised to pay them again next time.
But the next evening the boys received not 100 rubles each, but 50. On the third evening, the old man paid them only 10 rubles and explained that he was running out of money.
“Dear children,” he asked, “would you agree to come again tomorrow and play just like that?”
Extremely disappointed, the boys announced that they would not come again at all. Is it worth spending so much effort for free?
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru