• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Assuming they didn’t confuse ¢ and €, it’s possible they were asking a threshold question. Like, if you’d be officially gay for €87, what would you do for less than a dollar?

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      1 day ago

      It depends on the proportional savings. Not to me, I understand how math works, but to most people.

      They’ll drive across town to save 5 cents per gallon on fuel, with a vehicle that has a 10 gallon tank (a total savings of half a dollar) but often wont drive the same distance for a product thats $10 lower than wherever they are if the product costs $500 to begin with.

      I’ll be gay to save any money. Doesn’t matter to me. You got some other discount I don’t have to prove? Sure I’ll say I’m a disease vector for $2. Oh, you have a student discount where I save $1? How handy that I still have my decade-old student ID on me and always do because it doesn’t have dates on it. Why yes I did look up the local zip code to save $0.25/person on admission!