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△ 221｜Sit on the ground
The electric switch at home is broken, and it is broken at the right time – when the weather is the hottest, it cannot be delayed for a moment, and it has become the most urgent urgent solution at the moment. I hurriedly went to the hardware store downstairs to buy an air switch, only to be charged twice the original value by the other party. At the moment, I didn’t bargain, I just went to scan the code to pay. On the contrary, my decisiveness surprised the owner of the hardware store, and his face clearly showed a loss of emotion – probably thinking that he could have paid more.
I don’t bother to talk about the price for a long time. After all, it is the most necessary thing to turn on the electricity at home. I treat all the premiums as a supplement to this emergency – for example, if I buy the same model online, but the price is lower The air switch, I did enjoy the discount at the moment, and I can avoid being arbitrarily slaughtered by this hardware store owner – but it will take more time for this thing to be mailed to me. And those parts of the premium, even if it is an equivalent exchange for this mailing time difference.
Of course, the fundamental reason why I can “think clearly” about this matter in a short period of time is because I am too lazy to toss in such hot weather, so I would rather set a “reasonable” point for myself-probably because of the recent weather It’s too hot, and many homes have their air switches tripped due to overloaded operation, so it’s understandable to sit and raise prices because of the weather and market demand – this is what a businessman should do, not because of how ethical the buyer is. people, and use moral sense to limit and restrain the behavior of businessmen. When I take the idea of ”others owe me” out of my mind, I naturally don’t think of myself as a mercenary pig. At this time, someone will definitely come out to tangle, but is the air switch purchased at a high price a “loss”? It depends on how you understand the premium fee – as I said, if I buy the same item at a lower price online, I pay less money, but it takes time to post, and This process cannot be changed by humans.
So, those premium parts are just an equivalent exchange for this waiting time. At least after this deal is done, there is no owe-no-ower relationship between me and the owner of this hardware store.
Coincidentally, last night I also saw a person’s insight about “others don’t owe me”.
One of the signs of mental maturity is to figure out that “others don’t owe me.”
I saw something like this in the past two days. There is a teacher who is an expert in plants. He usually does some popular science programs and introduces various rare fruits to everyone. It was a good thing. You can still buy it and try it, but the content that is so harmless to humans and animals is far from ideology, and it is also attacked. The reason is that the teacher will name the Latin name when introducing the fruit, and some people can’t understand it, so they start to scold. Said it made him sick or something.
I laughed angrily. First of all, the teacher said that Latin names are necessary, because some fruits do not have a unified and standardized Chinese name. This is an effort to reduce misunderstandings and is a manifestation of conscientiousness and responsibility.
Second, it is your own problem that you can’t understand other people’s knowledge programs. Others don’t have any obligation to take care of your cultural level when you pay for free. A person with a little intellectual self-respect, if you find that you can’t understand the rules and regulations Knowledge content, the first thing you should feel is guilt, you should blush at your own ignorance, how can you be embarrassed to point at someone who is eager to share knowledge? I found that there are such a group of people in society, who are old and young, but still seem to be “nurtured” in their mentality. In their eyes, others have a natural obligation to satisfy them, and no reason, if they don’t If you are satisfied, then you will play tricks and hold others accountable for their non-existence. From my observation, the commonality of such people is that they have low mental level, it is difficult to think about abstract problems, and there is no sense of boundaries in interpersonal communication, as if they have stuffed a child’s brain into it In the cranial cavity of an adult, their behavioral logic can be summed up in one sentence: “You owe him.” Many troubles in the current society come from the response to the unreasonable demands of these guys. They feel that this show is not suitable for their children to watch, and the TV station cannot broadcast it. They feel that they do not like the views in the book, so the platform cannot Recommended, every time I see this kind of stupid thing, I will think of what Mr. Shi Hang said: “Don’t let fools hear about it, it is the way to survive for all the good things in the world.” Although this is wise, it is also sad. In an adult society where no one owes anyone, those good things should exist righteously.
– Heisenberg
I have seen too many people, no matter what they are facing or who they choose, they always take the conclusion that “you have suffered a loss”. More often, I think this group of people also believes in the logic of “if you don’t pick it up when you go out, you lose it” . Anything needs to be divided into a loss and a loss. Therefore, they are thinking about something from the perspective of “not letting themselves suffer” or “letting the other party suffer” is their own victory , just like the air switch, if they hear this price, they will definitely bite to the lowest. Price suppression, when they can’t think of any concessions, they turn to another goal – that is, not allowing the other party to enjoy a little advantage.
The more such people, the more inflated the price of the air switch, because when this group of people needs to buy an air switch, they must use “he took advantage of me” as the starting point and start to frantically reduce the price . Even if they hit a price that a hardware store owner would still make money from, they must show their unhappiness and dissatisfaction that they were “taken advantage of”, so that this group of people who feel that the whole world owes them feel that they have succeeded.
Of course, these premium products will still be bought by “takers” like me, and those premium profits are probably used to supplement the time, energy, speech and patience of the hardware store owner consumed by this group of people.
The more people who don’t allow themselves to be owed, the higher the premium will be, because they have to calculate the losses and gains that these idiots have to toss up in advance.
So I can still think of the surprised look on my boss’s face when I went straight to pay after making a falsely high price, and then instantly turned to despair – probably thinking that I should quote another price – or, he realized, he shouldn’t Think of me as someone who “always feels like he owes me”.
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