eBay 2014-June-4 - CWC's Ultimatum

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Please Buy and Pay in Full Now!

More and more I am under the impression that Chris believes other people run their finances exactly the same way as he does. Just as he has no problem dropping $1000 of easy-come-easy-go and credit all at once on legos, so he thinks everyone else has their own free unearned and credit cards to drop an easy grand on his crappy drawing. That people are greedily holding onto their money instead of giving it to him has to be causing him a lot of increasing frustration.

Chris doesn't consider that other people might have more important uses (like rent) for their money than to give it to him because he, himself has never had to worry about basic living expenses. All he sees are other people with presumably easy lives like his who selfishly won't take a measly thousand dollars from their own easy lives to make his easy life even easier. When his drawing doesn't get him the $1000 he demands, will he learn that maybe it isn't actually worth that much? Or will he "learn" the world is full of greedy, selfish people who are too cruel to help a poor, high functioning autistic buy all the legos he desperately "needs"?

 

[Anonimo]

I swear, If I didn't know any better, I'd think Chris thinks money must work the way it does in the Pokémon games. To elaborate, the game uses a currency called

or sometimes referred to as Pokédollars and the currency seems to work like a fictional equivalent of Japanese yen (¥). For example, a generic Pokéball might cost

100-200 ,which is probably the rough equivelant to ¥100 which by extension amounts to a little under $1. However, Chris can't seem to grasp the idea of foreign curency and economics. He probably saw how in the games some items were priced in the hundreds and thousands, and probably thought

100-200 for a Pokéball=$100-200 for a Pokéball. I'd be surprised if Chris even knows of Great Britain pounds, Euros, or other foreign currency systems, much less Japanese yen.

I'm also willing to speculate that Chris also probably saw this one cutaway gag involving Sandra Oh in an episode Family Guy that could have also skewed his view of economics. I can't find a clip but the moment played out like this:

Spoiler: Warning: Might not be safe for work.

Lois:(excited) Oh my god, Sandra Oh, (nervous laugh) we loved you in Sideways.

Sandra Oh:Thank you.

Peter:(explanatory tone) WE SEE YOU IN MANY MOVIES. I THINK ABOUT YOU WHILE HAVING SEX WITH MY WIFE. (pulls out one dollar bill) I THANK YOU WITH ONE DOLLAR. (turns to Lois) That's a lot of money to them.

Knowing how Chris takes anything he sees or hears in fiction at face value, I wouldn't be surprised if the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case.

Tl;dr, most(if not all) of what Chris knows about economics probably stems from following the model of Pokémon economics, which in itself was not based on the currency Chris may think it is. This might explain why Chris thinks people just have $1000 dollars that they can spend freely, even in this economy.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

He just says "American dollars" because that's what he hears smooth operators say when doing money deals in movies. I'm surprised he didn't demand the money be "unmarked" like he has before.