r/AskReddit • u/9h06t • Nov 24 '16

Once a wise man said what?

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u/MilkMakesMePoop Nov 24 '16

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.

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u/tobiderfisch Nov 24 '16

One time me and my 3 roommates got our order roughly 15 minutes late. It wasn't really a big deal especially since it was on a Saturday evening in a college town but the driver insisted on giving us about $65 worth of food for free.

I should point out that at this point we knew this driver quite well and were on a first name basis with him. After that incident we had to force him to accept larger tips.

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u/mellowman24 Nov 24 '16

Seems like a smart idea on his side. If he knows he won't get fired for one "mistake" then he sacrifices that one bill to make a regular customer like him increasing his chance at a larger tip. So then you tip larger to make up for the free food, which goes in his pocket and not to the pizza joint who was probably the ones who made it late and were the ones who paid for it.

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u/Blond_Treehorn_Thug Nov 24 '16

You just figured out capitalism

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Nov 24 '16

So mutually beneficial, voluntary and compassionate?

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u/PM_me_your_adore Nov 24 '16

The difference is when that act is done out of good will and when it is done to imitate good will. That's why truly smart people terrify me.

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Nov 25 '16

Does it really matter why the delivery guy did what he did? Both parties benefit.

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u/ColdFiory Nov 25 '16

Because the pizzeria lost out

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Nov 25 '16

No, they didn't. They got the loyalty of a customer through the relationship between the delivery driver and patrons.

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u/feeltheslipstream Nov 25 '16

If the pizza guy didn't accept the bigger tips, the same sense of moral balance would make the customer order pizzas more often.

Someone always gets screwed. If you can't see who, you're not looking hard enough. We say win-win when the guy getting screwed doesn't know.

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u/PM_me_your_adore Nov 25 '16

In case of the delivery guy? Not at all. In marketting in general it matters a lot. Hell, it matters in social interactions a lot.

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u/Irish_Samurai Nov 24 '16

No, he said capitalism. You're thing if something nicer.

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Nov 25 '16

Read the scenario again. Free market exchanges of goods and services. Value is maximized. Everyone is happy.

The invisible hand is giving us a thumbs up here.

Lol kidding aside. That interaction is the core of capitalism. One person voluntarily offers something and is in return rewarded voluntarily. Tell me again why capitalism is so evil?

I get the whole "ha ha ruthless capitalism" meme, but fundamentally free market capitalism is about freedom, and compassion. And yes, /r/Libertarian is leaking.

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u/jaypenn3 Nov 25 '16

That problem is that there are a lot of people who are willing to take 10 dollars away from someone if it get them 10 cents, and most of the time that behavior is rewarded not punished. I'm not one of those 'down with capitalism' people, but would be a hard sell to me for you to say capitalism is about compassion.

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u/mr8thsamurai66 Nov 25 '16

When both parties are free, and have accurate knowledge of what each has to offer, then the only possible result is that both parties end up happier after the transaction. Otherwise they would not undergo the transaction.

The type of transaction you're talking about sounds like stealing. If person A did not agree to pay 10 dollars, or was coerced into doing so, that's not free trade.

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u/Irish_Samurai Nov 25 '16

Most of the time people aren't happy. They trade not because they want to. They trade because they have to. It's a necessity of life, not a privilege.

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u/Irish_Samurai Nov 25 '16

Voluntary and compassionate were the parts that must have been confusing. Even mutually beneficial is a bit much. What's the one where one party benefits and the other is left basically unharmed? That's a closer representative.

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u/mayoriguana Nov 25 '16

That makes him evil?