Bar of Gold

[Dotard]

Can you read?

Oops. My bad. I did miss that.

Technically, you could argue a solution.....Unfortunately, the solution is neither simple, nor clever.

Oh I see. The source of your tantrum is the answer wasn't simple nor clever. That wasn't in the rules. "The answer must be simple and clever."

If you give the worker a piece of gold on day one that he must give back to you on day two, then you really didn't give him shit. You just had him hold it until the next day. If he is not free to do with the gold as he pleases then you didn't give him the gold.

Worker takes day one pay and buys a bag of pot.
Day two Adrian tells him, "Here is day two wage, but I need that day one gold back."
"Hell no, that's my gold, you gave that to me. It is of my contention requiring the worker to give back that which you have gave him the previous day negates the "you must GIVE him a piece everyday" rule because on day one you didn't GIVE him shit, you just had him hold it for a day.

How's that for lateral thinking? Would that fit in your pipe so ye may smoke it?