Give me a break. You know damn well that the GP didn't really want to trade his wife and it was a joke, yet you felt compelled to gallop in here on your steed and bravely proclaim - on a tech message board, in 2022 - that you are against treating human beings as property.
If you thought the joke was distasteful, say it was distasteful. But pretending it was serious and loudly letting us all know you are against trading human beings is some of the lamest virtual signalling I've ever seen.