This now begins my formal proof on why Pi is an irrational number...hah
But really, here's something I was musing on while in my Econ lecture today:
Make an irrational payment, and you'll be tied down for life. Let's look at an example.
"I'll give you $π for that blueberry pie"
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"Sure, I don't even like blueberries."
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"Hold on, do you want $3.14 or $3.15?"
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"Does it even matter?"
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"...Damn right it does."
Alright, so I'm not going to win any awards in script writing any time soon, but the point is the internal OCD accountant of the first person will be forever on edge that the debt can never be re-payed.
Scenario Uno: You pay $3.15. You over-payed. Shit, that's ~ 84.1% of a hard earned penny you just forked over to this other person. Plus, the blueberry pie wasn't even that good, just some store-made run of the mill pie. You berate yourself for over-calculating the worth of it, and most likely fall into a cyclical depression.
Scenario Deux: You pay $3.14. You under-payed. Shit, besides feeling like a huge jerk you are now indebted by ~15.9% of penny to some person who doesn't even know how to pick out a proper blueberry pie, or even freaking decide what they like.
But you're an ingenious and resourceful individual. So, in Scenario Deux (see above) what you do is offer the person 3 coupons, specifically highlighting the fact that they are worth 1/20 of a cent.
But...that's exactly where your ingenuity ends and your years of self-loathing begin. One does not simply square a debt of irrationality.
What if you're the person in Scenario Uno (see above)? After breaking out of your depression, you rise up. You become the leader of your country. You force your people into a totalitarian state. Have your hired goons find and kill him. What's a fraction of a penny to a dead person anyways, am I right?
What are you musingon?
-Mi
