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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workstoFunny@sh.itjust.worksIt WORKS
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    5 hours ago

    You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s actually true here.

    It’s super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.



  • Also, risk is a factor.

    If you lend money to your flaky cousin, you might want more interest to cover the risk of him never paying you back. If you lend money to your twin sister who has never missed a single thing in her life, maybe half a percent will do.

    Well, the US just started moving into flaky cousin territory after two centuries of reliable sister.






  • Medieval peasants had SOOO many holidays.

    Holidays meant “you don’t have to work for the lord who owns your land”, but since they were subsistence farmers in the middle ages, that meant they still had to tend the animals and do the work on their own plots. They were absolutely still working during their “holidays”.