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It's a bit like the insurance market. We buy insurance because bearing the cost of misfortune is too much to bear as an individual. In the same way, paying hun
by brewdad 2y ago
It's a bit like the insurance market. We buy insurance because bearing the cost of misfortune is too much to bear as an individual.
In the same way, paying hundreds of dollars to fix a broken window is a significant burden to the individual owner. Paying an extra dollar on my Walmart bill is much easier to absorb.
- gruez 2y agoEven if we grant everything you said, if you adopt that as your moral/legal system, the "extra dollar" will quickly snowball into hundreds to thousands of dollars as everyone realizes that they can steal with impunity.