Indefinite free loan to an animal sanctuary.
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That counts as giving it away. You'd probably need to rent it out at the steep price of €1/year.
That counts as selling it. You have to create a shell corporation that owns the elephant and then create a co-ownership agreement with a zoo that guarantees that they house it in exchange for the profits that it generates.
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Literally does not. I own the elephant in perpetuity and reserve the eternal right to reclaim it at any time, for any reason - I am the legal owner of record, now and forever. It's the same relationship you have with digital media, except I never took an upfront fee.
If you still disagree, I'll see you in court.
The answer to these questions is always a method of extracting wealth and donating it to the company as a good little minion should.
Edit: You won't be hired, but your ideas will be appropriated.
Oh no, my ideas on how to... checks notes... care for an elephant, will be appropriated!
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Transport it on my freight train animal carrier to my 60k acre animal sanctuary where it can join the herd of other elephants I already have.
Hypothetical questions with unrealistic rules allow me to make silly answers unhindered by realism.
From Wikipedia
In the past, lower grade white elephants were given as gifts to the king's friends and allies. The animals needed a great deal of care and, being sacred, could not be put to work, so were a great financial burden on the recipient; only the monarch and the very rich could afford them. According to one story, white elephants were sometimes given as a present to some enemy (often a lesser noble with whom the king was displeased). The unfortunate recipient, unable to make any profit from it, and obliged to take care of it, would suffer bankruptcy and ruin.
So the only correct answer is obviously to start a rebellion and overthrow the king.
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Me and Stampy are riding off into the sunset.
Can't give it away or sell it? Fine, I set it free. Didn't say I couldn't do that.
Candidate application status: Denied due to lack of capitalist understanding and enthusiasm. Refused to monetize valuable resource.
Elephant rent seeking behavior
Ride it into battle.
Ignore it and pump exorbitant amounts of money on ill-advised boondoggles.
Found the AI businessman.
Put it in the room with the other one and ignore it.
Ask the elephant what they want.
The question hasn't magically given me the ability to contain or control the elephant, so realistically the elephant will decide what happens next. I don't see where I can meaningfully change the outcome.
I acknowledge tge elephant in my room
They're not really that strange, but I'm infuriated by questions phrased like "Have you ever thought about stealing anything?"
Even if I'd never in my life before that moment thought about stealing anything, because you have asked me that question, now I have. You may as well ask me whether not I've ever imagined a pink elephant.
Im going to assume that "can't give it away" also means that it can't be transferred to my next of kin. Which if you squint hard enough, means as long as the elephant lives, I must be invincible, or the "can't give it away" rule is violated.
So im gonna get creative with my newfound invincibility.
I suppose I should give the elephant a nice sanctuary to extend its life.
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FYI:
Elephants are megaherbivores. They eat up to 300 kilograms (5% to 10% of their body weight) of food each day. To meet their needs, they require 50,000 to 70,000 calories daily.
Even if they're eating the cheapest plants you can buy that they can digest, that will still probably be hundreds of dollars per day.
I think the only reasonable answer is to just leave without it. This one's on the gift giver; I can't possibly accept it. For one, it definitely can't go in my apartment, and it would cost a shit ton to keep it healthy. It would be an extraordinarily bad idea to take it under my care. I would be getting all sorts of new and exotic fines for all the damage it will do to neighborhood cars etc.
Ride it to work every day, taking the best parking spots. Good luck trying to tow ab elephant.
Bananas work wonders for getting an elephant to follow you.
I release it back in the wild. It's not giving it away or selling it if it "runs away."
Easy, I ignore it until it gets taken away by the authorities for neglect and for me not having a license to own an elephant. I did not sell it. I did not give it away. It was taken from me.
I pay someone $1 to take it, there I didn't give it away and I didn't sell it.
Is this an ethical question or a logic question or a creative question
Yes.
Address it
Teach it to love the taste of HR blood
Ride it over the alps.
I've heard a million times that the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time, so.... that.
I know the answer! Its
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Your mom
I hear elephant meat is quite tasty actually.
"Give it away"
Rules don't apply if you're making shit up
What type of job is this? Zookeeper?
I honestly love these sorts of questions. I love asking them in interviews too. There's no real right answer and it demonstrates an ability to think outside the box
I only like it when it's like expected to be that way ... the problem that I see in tech interviews is that there's an expected path to solving these and they don't "actually" reward out-of-the-box thinking ... they want to nudge you to their answer and I find that boring.
The right answer is always whatever makes the interviewer think you're smart. I bullshit my way through these because I have zero respect for them. Every interview question asked to me should be directly related to the job description. Thankfully I'm a professional bullshitter and they're easy as cake because impressing people who ask those questions is usually easy by the nature of the reason the question is asked in the first place (to appear competent). Love getting those jobs though!
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I can't give it away or sell it, but nothing says can't trade it for something more practical (as long as it's not money.)
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