| | When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
I struggled through the riddle of the math on this one, and came up with the following: 1. The other penny is their's. They only offered a penny for a penny's worth of your thoughts, but you gave them another penny's worth unasked for. They can make their money back by passing this (the extra penny's worth of your thoughts) along at the same rate of exchange. 2. The other penny is now worth more due to deflation (or, disinflation) brought on by the precedent set here of gaining two for the price of one. Unless the extra penny's worth is offered back as a rebate, those who offer two cents worth of their thoughts for a penny would soon be out of business. 3. The other penny should go into a piggy bank so that you can later afford to buy this hat: 4. It ends up in the fountain, or in the dish by the cash register at the Quik-Mart! 5. It doesn't really matter anyway, as it was never worth much to begin with! 6. Depending on the current market value of zinc and copper that penny may actually be worth closer to two cents! See also the following which may not be much help in determining where the other penny ended up, but show the variety of places that the question did: I could go on, but that should be enough devaluation for one blog! |
| | Posted 7/23/2007 10:07 AM - 206 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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