07.13.05

Some people are honest, some aren’t.

Posted in General at 11:26 am

And you sometimes guess wrong, which is which. A damn good article, if only for this paragraph. Talk about a plan gone bad.

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner -
William Morrow, 2005
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“One man cites a story
he heard about a toll-collector strike in England. During
the strike, drivers were asked simply to put their money
into a box. As it turned out, the government collected more
toll money during the strike — which suggests that the
drivers were at least fairly honest, but also that the toll
collectors had been skimming like mad.”

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