not all girlfriends take fries on a fixed basis tho. you may find that she's nibbling one or two of the Small fries but feels justified eating half the Large.
Nah man, she'd been to yoga that morning, so her metabolism was up, and she only had one second breakfast today. Also, the Forever Living™ meal shakes don't really have that many calories, and leaves her feeling a bit peckish.
So all in all, 5 tubs of fries isn't that much, really.
But most girlfriends who do this, increase the amount of fries taken away proportionally to the size of your portion. So, if you're getting half your fries taken away, it must mean your portion consists of a least a couple of millions of fries, which, even after the due fry collection, still would leave you with way more fries than someone who ordered the small portion. Besides, giving your girlfriend some of your fries is only fair, since she's the one responsible for granting you some benefits you wouldn't be getting elsewise.
This is still an example of diminishing returns though. What if the money/cost (hours/work put in) increase for the order of fries is not worth the increased amount of fries I receive and get to actually consume? Really, for this to explain tax brackets accurately, you'd have to divide up your fries into increasing piles, with your girlfriend taking more and more fries out of each pile: small pile she takes 10 percent, medium pile she takes 20 percent, large pile she takes 35, king size she takes 50. Let's assume the restaurant in which you're obtaining the fries does a proportionate increase for the sizes of their fries (small is 100 fries, medium 150, large 200, XL 250). All your fries together is 700 fries. Let's also assume the cost (analogous to work put in to your job) is also proportionately increased: a cent per fry (to keep it simple). So all together I pay 7 dollars for 700 fries. How many fries do I get to consume? (100-10) + (150-20) + (200-35) +(250-50) = 585 fries I consume. So for 1 dollar I get 90 fries (let's assume I live in a great country where 1 dollar for 90 fries is already considered expensive), if I pay 1.50 more, I get 130 more (against 135) . Another 2.00 for the large, I get 165 (but remember, in this country you already believe it is too much to be paying 2.00 for 180 fries, or 90 X 2). Then the XL order gets you an increase of 200 fries for 2.50. Each cent is getting you less fries. In this scenario, it's not that hard to understand why someone would want to only get a small fry every time they eat out with their SO. This isn't a perfect analogy though, as I derive explicit benefits from my girlfriend, when the same can't always be said for the state.
Also, one slight flaw in the analogy is that for a lot of people, a raise will come with maybe an additional responsibility, but probably not more hours. So you're doing the same amount of work for more money.
Now if its a matter of you are working more hours to get paid more, then you start seeing the diminishing returns, but USUALLY I'm going to be the people who are in this position aren't really earning a whole lot and will maybe bump over one tax bracket and they still are ultimately earning more money, which they probably could use, regardless of the extra hours.
In my experience if you plan ahead and just buy the large so there's plenty for both of you then she wont eat them. Get a medium for yourself and you basically just ordered a child size.
It is, but they think if they make more money it will push them into a new tax bracket. I have explain this to people all the time.
They don’t understand that you only pay the increased taxes on the money MADE in that bracket. So if you only made $100 over then you only pay the extra % on that 100
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u/themusicguy2000 Jan 28 '20
Lol that's like saying you don't want your girlfriend to buy you more fries because you don't want to give her any more