Re:How to Beat High Airfares
by aterimperator on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:08AM
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To be fair... money has different value to different people. I doubt any billionaires would care to waste 10 minutes of other people's time to save much money, because money doesn't have that much value to them. On the other hand, college students that eat lots of ramen are already valuing money more than their own health, so it seems natural that they'd place far more value on the money, even if they place the same value on other people's time.
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You probably don't know many rich people.
Disregarding the infamous rich brats you see on TV, rich people are in general very frugal and do care about dimes and nickels. That's how many of them got rich in the first place.
And regardless, billionaires are in a minority.
college students that eat lots of ramen are already
valuing money more than their own health
Re:How to Beat High Airfares
by aterimperator on Friday May 06, 2011 @10:22AM
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Are you really arguing that the marginal value of an extra dollar is more for a billionaire than for a college student who eats ramen?
No, he's clearly arguing that the billionaire is more rational with his money. Even though the marginal value is higher for the college student, that student is not as smart might not even see the opportunity for monetary gain.
Re:How to Beat High Airfares
by sliverstorm on Friday May 06, 2011 @05:30PM
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college students that eat lots of ramen are already valuing money more than their own health
Speaking as a college student, college students eat ramen today so they can eat ramen tomorrow instead of eating steak today and not eating tomorrow.
And when I say "tomorrow", I really mean the whole week.