> BTW my wife is from a very poor country and she would laugh at anyones face for paying full price to a vendor. It doesn't make you "ethical" it makes you stupid in her mind.
I was thinking along the same lines a while ago. Then I realized something, please pass this along if you want:
No, they're not stupid. They just have money and they don't care that much. You're poor (or were and that memory lingers) and stressed out and they just want to relax.
By and large rich people are as smart as poor people and are on average better educated. If they're doing something "dumb" constantly, you don't understand their world, especially this Iron Triangle of Activities:
Time - Stress - Money
any activity is somehow paid. With either your time or your stress or your money.
Poor people pay with time or stress, smart rich people convert those frequently into money.
If they now make a decent developed country salary, haggling in a poor country over 0.0001% of your monthly salary is probably not an efficient use of their time, but old (irrational now) habits die hard.
I was thinking along the same lines a while ago. Then I realized something, please pass this along if you want:
No, they're not stupid. They just have money and they don't care that much. You're poor (or were and that memory lingers) and stressed out and they just want to relax.
By and large rich people are as smart as poor people and are on average better educated. If they're doing something "dumb" constantly, you don't understand their world, especially this Iron Triangle of Activities:
Time - Stress - Money
any activity is somehow paid. With either your time or your stress or your money.
Poor people pay with time or stress, smart rich people convert those frequently into money.