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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on April 06, 2025, 12:32:18 PM
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PCIntern
Somebody sent me this -I thought it was rather excellent.
“A wealthy Cadillac dealer orders a pizza for his family every Friday night. His family loves pizza from a particular restaurant because it's the best tasting pizza and the Cadillac dealer likes the price. He's even developed a friendship with the pizza delivery boy who cycles several miles to bring them their pizza.
One day the Cadillac dealer is doing his accounts and has a thought: 'Over the years, I've given the pizza delivery boy thousands of dollars and yet never once has he bought a Cadillac Escalade from me. How is that fair? This guy is ripping me off.'
The more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes.
'I'm running a massive trade deficit with that kid on that bicycle. He is deliberately not buying my cars to screw me over. I'm a Cadillac dealer and he's a puny kid on a bike. I hold all the cards. I'm going to put a stop to this.'
So, the following Friday night he confronts the delivery boy. 'You have been robbing me for years. I'm subsidising your business with thousands of dollars and yet you never buy my Escalades. So, I'm going to impose a 50% surcharge on every pizza you deliver to this house and there's nothing you can do about it!'
The pizza delivery boy looks confused. 'I'm sorry but I couldn't afford to buy or run a Cadillac Escalade even if I needed one, which I don't.'
'I don't care,' says the Cadillac dealer. 'It's not fair me subsidising you thousands of dollars. Why should I be paying you these subsidies?'
'Because you like my pizza and that's what they cost. That's not a subsidy. It's called trade,' answers the delivery boy.
'Well, it's not trade if you refuse to buy a Cadillac, so I'm going to charge 50% on top of the price of your pizzas so I get some payback.'
'Who are you going to charge?'
'My family!'
'How's that going to work?'
They're going to be livid! They'll be so angry that the pizza is going to cost 50% more that they'll stop telling me to buy them from you. They'll start making their own pizzas and you'll go bust!'
'Can they make pizzas this good? Do they even want to?'
'That's not the point!'
'And how many more Cadillacs will you sell if we go bust?'
'Who cares? At least I won't be being ripped off by a mere pizza delivery boy on a bicycle!'
'OK. Here's your pizza. Keep the tip. It was nice doing business with you.'”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220212675
I think that was rather stupid.
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They really have a knack for making points that have nothing to do with anything.
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What?
Uh, we don’t trade pizzas for autos. We trade pizzas for pizzas and autos for autos.
That is one of the dumbest things I think I’ve ever read.
How the hell do they come up with this stuff?
KC
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Aesop responded:
:facepalm: :facepalm:
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And this clown claims to be a DMD? I guess I don't have to read anything else left related today because the PCIdiot has provided us with the stupidest thing on the innerwebs today. I'm not sure what is sadder. The fact that he shared it or the fact that he thinks it's excellent.
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BEAT ME TO THAT!!
HI 5!
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And this clown claims to be a DMD? I guess I don't have to read anything else left related today because the PCIdiot has provided us with the stupidest thing on the innerwebs today. I'm not sure what is sadder. The fact that he shared it or the fact that he thinks it's excellent.
There are just some people that shouldn't have access to the internet and PCIdiot is one of the many members at DU that fills the bill.
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That is the stupidest thing I have read in a long time.
Not one bit of economic theory even attempted.
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That rates two AOC's and and one Crockett on the stupid scale. :banghead:
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Personally, I think anyone with a working brain would be ashamed to post something stupid as that. I bet your PC intern spent this whole lunch hour thinking that up. :loser: :mental:
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A wealthy owner of a Cadillac dealership took a bite of yet another cold pizza, which had been delivered from miles away by a kid on a bike. 'Why am I ordering from a place that makes some kid ride a bike to deliver pizza, like we're in 1950's Saigon,' he thought, 'why can't the pizza parlor have someone with a car deliver a pizza? At this point, the pizza parlor and I are idiots. I'm going to order from someone else and maybe that kid will find a job that doesn't require him to ride all over town like Ho Chi Minh.'
The end.
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It now has 270 recs. There sure is a lot of stupid at The DUmp.
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I only made it half way through before I was overcome by the stupidity. It's just so cringe. Is he trying to say this is how tariffs work? And yeah, BFDU, what's with the ****ing bike?
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I only made it half way through before I was overcome by the stupidity. It's just so cringe. Is he trying to say this is how tariffs work? And yeah, BFDU, what's with the ****ing bike?
Hey, leave the bike alone. Just yesterday I had my laundry delivered to my house by a delightful little man in a paddy hat who'd peddled his rickshaw 10 miles from his well to my door.
Talk about some CLEAN shirts, though. I don't bother asking how he does it. Something about an ancient secret.
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A rickshaw? Not a tuk tuk? :-)
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And a bike lock jumped out of the bushes! :-)