A billionaire enters a gas station. Seeing the "Leave a penny, take a penny" dish on the counter, he scoops up all of the coins and pockets them.
"I'm a genius," he says to the protesting clerk. "I earned this money. Anybody could have taken it, but only I had the vision to see what was possible."
@maxleibman I'm reminded of all the people who argue with the cashiers "but this TV was sitting on a shelf that said $20!" I would say "someone could have just set it there" and certainly nothing says you can't pick it up and set it on a spot that says $20 Barbie, but most probably just lie about it. And they make a big stink until they get the boss over and get the $200 TV for $20.
And not once when I saw this was it someone who couldn't easily afford the TV at its regular price.
@maxleibman The thing that *truly* upsets me about this is this hurts everything.
In my example that goes into part of the store's overall operating costs. It's invisible so people don't even notice it, but it costs more to operate because of people like this, so prices all across the board are just that much higher as compensation. No one thing goes up noticeably. Everything does by pennies at a time. And we all pay more.
Ultimately they paid full price for that TV, but so did we all.
@nazokiyoubinbou @maxleibman I realized later that she might’ve been mentally preparing for me to become a problem by demanding an even bigger discount by citing the last keyboard and was grateful that I didn’t do that to her, which seemed nonsensical to me because if the issue was the keyboard, why would I buy the same one again?
Anyways it took decades for me to realize I was autistic lol
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