{"id":68,"date":"2005-06-07T12:57:36","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/posts\/greed-disguised\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:19:00","slug":"greed-disguised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/greed-disguised\/","title":{"rendered":"Greed Disguised"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve read that the efficiency of a purchase (i.e. the satisfaction gained from the money spent) goes from high to low with the following situations:<\/p>\n

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  1. spending your<\/strong> money on yourself<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. spending someone else’s<\/strong> money on yourself<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. spending your<\/strong> money on someone else<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. spending someone else’s<\/strong> money on someone else<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is used, among other things, to explain why capitalism is more efficient than communism. But my application is far more personal…<\/p>\n

    You see, I’m pretty sure that you were planning on spending some of your money on me. Don’t ask me how; I just know these things. That would put you in category #3. Hmm, that’s a bit low on the efficiency scale.<\/p>\n

    I have a proposal. How about you let me control how you spend the money? This would move you to category #2. How would I do that, you ask? Through the time-honored system of distributing a wish list<\/a>, I reply triumphantly. By purchasing items from my wish list<\/a>, you improve the efficiency of your money.<\/p>\n

    And remember: efficient people are happy people. Be happy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve read that the efficiency of a purchase (i.e. the satisfaction gained from the money spent) goes from high to low with the following situations: spending your money on yourself spending someone else’s money on yourself spending your money on someone else spending someone else’s money on someone else This is used, among other things, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citizen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}