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If the charity can take a $5 cash donation, turn it into $15 of food and $10 cash, then instead of paying the $10 cash to management, why not split it into two
by baddox 7y ago
If the charity can take a $5 cash donation, turn it into $15 of food and $10 cash, then instead of paying the $10 cash to management, why not split it into two more instances of $5 cash and repeat the process?
- patrickyeon 7y agoBecause this isn't a magic fantasy world where you're literally turning cash into bigger cash. When someone says "$5 cash becomes $15 worth of food", they mean "I can spend the $5 to get what would cost you $15 to spend". And when it's broken down into "of the $5, $3 goes to paying for food, and $2 goes to paying people", that $2 pays the people who can use the $3 as effectively as the original person could use $15. If you decide to get rid of those people, and just spend the $2 directly on food, you can no longer use it effectively.
- baddox 7y agoI understand that $5 at wholesale prices could be three times as much food than at retail prices. But the example literally says that $5 of cash turns into $15 of food plus $10 of cash.
- virusduck 7y agoThat's why nobody likes recursion