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Re: The Limits To Growth
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> >I note:
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> >For the last decade or so (when I had more money than I needed) I made a
> >point of occasionally offering people $5 - $20 no strings attached. I
> >probably did this about 200 times. One girl working at a hotel check-in
> >counter took $5, she refused it the first time and said hers was the
> >only one in the hotel which could not take tips, so I told her it wasn't
> >a tip. A divorced Mormon woman living at her mother's with her teen-age
> >son at work took $20, and asked me four or five times if I was sure I
> >wanted to give that much money away.
I should have included that no-one else ever took the money.
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