My goal is to "reform" the trees in the back of my house to become money trees. They are currently not growing money, but I would like them to start doing so in the near future. I have outlined two proposals and would appreciate some commentary as to the appropriateness of each proposal.
Proposal 1
I will begin by mandating that the trees produce money. Branches that are not growing money must be removed, since they are not meeting what is mandated. Each day I will step outside, and any branch without as much as a $1 bill on it would be pruned and discarded. The trees should eventually "reform" and provide the money that I have been requiring of them. If they have not "reformed", they will be cut down so that another tree can have the opportunity to form into a money tree.
Proposal 2
I will research the task of growing money on trees. I will see if in fact trees can be changed to grow $1 bills, and follow all necessary steps to make sure I am "reforming" my trees into money trees. If it calls for planting coins/dollars at the base of each tree, then I will do that. If it calls for water every day and moderate sunlight, that is what they will receive. If in fact the trees do not produce money after this, an evaluation will need to occur. Do I continue my "reform" efforts? Do I seek an alternative method of "reform"? Shall I work on a new and innovative approach towards creating money trees? Do I cut down the trees at the end that are not money trees, or should I allow them to continue existence and let them serve a different purpose?
Which one of these proposals is the appropriate way at achieving the impossible task of creating money trees? Are there alternatives to these approaches?
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I feel like this is somehow meant as a metaphor for school and levels of math classes. Students unable to do algebra or trig problems (that may not be important) are put in lower level classes or ignored while the ones that can are given the attention so they can continue to "produce" and the other students get wasted or "cut down". They are mandated to produce though, and are forced into classes like that to be able to produce unnecessary or improbable information, because some tree's just cant grow the money. This probably has nothing to do with that but maybe this is one of the random moments where I'm right out of nowhere.
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