""do him a solid"" "or helping out friends simply for the sake of helping" To expand on this and bring in the theory of reciprocity to the discussion. By doin

""do him a solid"" "or helping out friends simply for the sake of helping" To expand on this and bring in the theory of reciprocity to the discussion. By doing the solid for Rodman, Kim Jong Un gets access also to something money or power can't buy that he may want going forward (other american basketball players). But here's an interesting thing that I have learned over time about doing "solids" for people. You have to cash in the solid rather quickly in general. That small thing [1] that you helped someone out with 10 years ago isn't as likely to get you a return favor as something you did two weeks ago. I'm trying right now to get something that <large co you've heard of and most certainly use> controls that money can't buy because they don't need money. So I'm working another angle whereby I try to find something that someone else needs that has some influence over them to get them to give me what I want in exchange for the favor that the party that has the influence wants. I suspect that when Bill Clinton tried to get Led Zepelin to play the concert he might have succeeded if there was something that the group needed that he could help out with. (Say theoretically an issue that access to key legislators could help with.) http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bill_failed_zep_lomacy_owkXnntj3xnhn7sI3tZjHI http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bill_failed_zep_lomacy_ow... [1] Meaning you didn't save someone's life I'm not sure how this would apply to Rodman and hostages it's all a matter of situation and degree.