Monday, April 16, 2007

Bargains - The Enemy of the People

From one of my students' textbooks:

Bargains

To offer bargains is a commercial trick to make the poor poorer. When greedy fools fall for this trick, it serves them right. All the same, if bargains were prohibited by law, our standard of living would immediately rise by 7.39 percent.


The textbook didn't site a source for the rather precise standard of living increase.

I should also note that, at 45 RMB, the book was a little overpriced.

1 comment:

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