After all - in all those analagous examples, there is something good to be
had.
For a Million bucks - cutting football field grass with toenail
clippers..... a million bucks a year is a pretty good salary to get no matter
how boring/monotonous/ridiculous the job might be.
Microsoft's historical
exchanges have always been promises of something good with never a follow up on
the promise.
So that would be the promise of a million bucks to cut the
football field grass with toenail clippers, the million bucks to be paid at the
end, you carry out the bargain to the letter, and the other side finds some way
to avoid paying you the million bucks.
Like when MS set up that
promotional "Smoked by Windows Phone" test and they
found ways around following up on their end of the bargain when people actually
proved their phones faster - and that's within MS' specifically set up tests
where they stacked the odds in favor of their phones.
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