I see application today also...

This is an old joke from the Soviet Union: 

Two dirt-poor peasants, Igor and Boris, are just barely scratching a living out of their tiny plots of land. 

The only difference being that Boris has a goat and Igor doesn’t. 

Then a fairy appears to Igor one day and says, “I’ll grant you any wish.” 

And he says, “I wish that Boris’ goat should die."