an old one, but always funny
“Would you be willing to have sex with someone you didn’t like for $1 million?”
“For $1 million I guess I would be able to endure it for a few minutes”
“Here’s $20, let’s go to my room and have sex”
“What kind of woman do you think I am?”
“Lady, we’ve already established the kind of woman you are, now we’re just negotiating the price”
it’s funny because economics is always such a humorous subject
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The most puzzling question in economics:
Tim Harford fielded this question a couple years ago: why has the price of weed remained the same over decades, roughly $10 per gram in the 1980s and still $10 per gram today?
Harford is a bright guy and almost always has insightful commentary, yet couldn’t come up with an answer
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When there is nothing to write about, there is always sex and drugs to write about. Or baseball. By the time his contract runs out Barry Zito will have earned over $143 million for his career. For Alfonso Soriano, it will be close to $160 million
