Sort of like this fable (
http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/item/403):
Once a poor man walked down the streets, weak with hunger. As he passed a bakery, he paused to smell the aroma of baking bread. Hmmmm.....it was delicious. I took another deep breath. Ahhhh. Wonderful. Straightening, he took one last deep breath and prepared to move on.
Before the poor man could move, the baker ran out of the store yelling "Stop Thief!" Siezing hold of the startled poor man the baker shook him roughly and said "Pay thief."
"For what?" Asked the poor man.
"For the smell of the bread." Answered the Baer.
"What?" Said the poor man. "Whoever heard of paying for the smell of the bread? Now if I had taken your bread and eaten it, I would of course have paid. But I have no money, so I merely smelled the aroma of the bread baking as I passed."
"Aha!" Said the Baker. "You admit you went out of your way to smell the aroma of my baking bread. Now let me tell you, I work hard to make the smell of the bread. I rise at four in the morning. I gather the wood for the fire. I pay for the finest flour and the best ingredients. I mix everything just so. Only after all this labor do I put the dough in the oven, where it makes its smell. Yet you would compensate me for none of this labor! Thief, I say. I will not let you go until you pay."
"But you do not do this labor to make bread smell! You do this labor to make bread, which you sell for a good price. In this way are your efforts repaid. The smell comes whether you want it or not. You cannot have the bread without making the smell, which drifts on the wind free as air."
Still the baker would not let him go. "Maybe so, maybe so," said the Baker. "But you did more than just walk by. You stopped to smell the bread. You got benefit from my labor. Why should you not pay."
A crowd had gathered as the men spoke. And while some said the Poor Man spoke truth, others said the Baker also spoke truth. After all, should the poor man enjoy the sweat of te Baker's brow for free? So they resolved to take the matter to King Solomon, the wisest man on Earth, for him to judge.
The Baker and the Poor Man went to Solomon and each told their tale. When Solomon had heard their tale, he thought a moment. Then, he took some coins from his pocket and gave them to the Poor Man.
"Take these coins," said Solomon. "And jingle them by the ear of the Baker." When the Poor Man had done so, Solomon looked at the Baker and said: "As you have now received your payment, why do you stand about here? Depart!"
The Baker looked at the King astonished. "But our majesty," said the Baker. "I have received nothing."
"Nonesense," replied the King. "Just as the Poor Man received the smell of the bread, you have been paid with the sound of the money."
