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Does everyone have their price?

BSM1

What? Me worry?
I don't think everyone has their price, particularly if said price is solely around money.

Having said that, for a billion bucks I'm Christian.


Like the old joke:

A man asks a woman in a bar if she would sleep with him for ten thousand dollars.
"Well sure!" she said.
"Would you sleep with me for ten dollars?" he asked.
"Of course not!" she huffed. "What kind of a woman do you think I am?"
"We've already determined that, " he said. "Now we're just haggling..."
 

lewisnotmiller

Grand Hat
Staff member
Premium Member
Like the old joke:

A man asks a woman in a bar if she would sleep with him for ten thousand dollars.
"Well sure!" she said.
"Would you sleep with me for ten dollars?" he asked.
"Of course not!" she huffed. "What kind of a woman do you think I am?"
"We've already determined that, " he said. "Now we're just haggling..."

I have worked as a software consultant all my adult life. I now work for a consulting company which doesn't really have salesmen, as such. Our point of difference is that everyone a customer deals with has done the job, and has understanding of what's required, etc.

However, of course, there is some element of contract negotiations and quotations to be written up, and meetings with clients to try and win projects.

A few of my team (who've known me for 15+ years) just LOVE to call me a salesman now, and basically imply I'm a pimp (all in good nature). I asked one the other day 'If I'm the pimp, what's that make you?'

'Well...depends how you do your job. If you do it poorly, I'm a whore. But if you do it well, I'm an escort.'
 

Heyo

Veteran Member
I have my price but you are not willing to pay it. That keeps me moral and you rich.
 
Does everyone have their price?

The problem with asking questions of what people think they would do in a particular scenario, is that when such things actually do happen, people are nowhere near as virtuous/brave/etc. as they would like to think they are.

Lots of people will say they can't be bought, they might even truly believe it, but in the right situation (such as losing their savings/home) the majority of them could be bought.

A few of them will be correct when saying it, but most people who believe they are incorruptible are just engaging in conceit.
 

Tambourine

Well-Known Member
I think we should keep in mind that usually, not all beliefs and moral positions are of equal importance to us. Some may compose such a core of our own identity and self-image that they take a serious effort or major personal crisis to change. Other beliefs we may hold on a more surface level, and are therefore easier to modify or get rid of.

Of course, this is further complicated by beliefs not existing in a vacuum, but being informed, influenced, and sometimes even outright imprinted byour personal desires, our economic needs, our social environment and the way we exist inside it, and our own identity within that environment and the way we relate to ourselves.
 

ManSinha

Well-Known Member
These images are disturbing - but they serve to show that not everybody can be bought

Bhai_Mati_Das.jpg


Bhai+Tara+Singh+in+a+blissful+state+even+after+his+scalp+has.jpg


Chhote-Sahibzaade-martyrdom.jpg

They were offered riches, a comfortable life if they converted their religion - they declined - at a horrible cost to themselves - mercilessly tortured to death
 
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