“There’s a moral in this story somewhere, but I’m not sure what it is.”

A wounded baited animal will bite the hand of the one who feeds it.

Bear baiting of the English MP has become the sport of the English Media. Wonder where they learned to do that.

As to learning what an employee is really worth it is worth remembering Ishmael discussing his employment in Moby Dick.

“But being paid,-what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous,considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah!how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”- Moby Dick – Melville 1851

It is the act of paying that gets to the nub. In the sentence prior to the one above Meville writes-”The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.”Clearly Adam and Eve did not not know about the marvelous notion of deficit spending.