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I acquired an electric fly swatter and have written up a contract with a bounty of $1 per fly payable in 3 days at GameStop to the boy child.

"Wait if I kill a hundred flies I can spend $100 at GameStop?" Correct little man.

Any guesses how many dead flies he can collect in three days? Will the VR headset suck him back in and prevent any earnings? I will report on the results this weekend.

#gamestop #flygenocide #killemall

Kip Ashlynn 6mo ago

For those of you waiting with bated breath to find out how the fly swatting caper went... The boy got 10 flies the first day, with no additional kills in the following days.

I inquired about this and received a rather snippy answer about how there were no more flies in the house. I pointed out the flys actively flying around us while we had that conversation. "There's no more flies in my section of the house!"

Turns out those first few flies were also the ones that bothered him while he was playing with the VR headset. The call of the video game was stronger than the call of the dollar. I cannot relate as I was a lil hustler at a young age just because I love to spend money 🤣 He could have easily gotten a lot more but I wasn't going to push it.

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Globe99 6mo ago

The thing to watch out for here is the classic "perverse incentives" problem in economics, which in this case would be he lets in a bunch of flies so he can then swat them and earn more money than he would otherwise.

Although that seems to not be the case here... apparently he's not looking for ways to "game" the system... 😅

Kip Ashlynn 6mo ago

Honestly, I wouldn't be angry if he did try to game the system it's part of learning to be successful in our society! 🤣🤑🤣

When I was little we often had these types of games set for us, and we'd get bonuses for gaming the system. The only time we'd get punished is if we got caught by a person from outside the family.

This kid could have picked up an extra $20 just from the windowsills but nah, why bother I guess? Can't relate. But whatever there are many less flies now and the screens are fixed so all's well that ends well!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

creating problems to get credit to solve them is called the cobra effect.

it's the daily business of politicians.

Kip Ashlynn 6mo ago

It's a good strategy for getting what you want, but then again I was raised in the D.C. metro area so maybe it's been normalized to me 🤷‍♀️

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 6mo ago

not surprising since that's exactly what most jobs in DC are about

whitefleaCH 6mo ago

How do I breed flies? 😉

Cortdey 6mo ago

I would kill flies for a dollar each! That's good money.

When I was a kid, my mom paid us to rake leaves by how many we bagged. We got a quarter a bag. My other friends were getting $15 bucks to do their whole yard. My mom got her yard raked for about a $1.50. She was so cheap. Once she said she would pay us a penny for every sign we read while she was driving because my sister and I were learning to read. In the first trip, I earned more than hundred pennies. She said never mind, this game is too expensive for her. She never paid up.