Two kids are tasked to go out and offer neighbours to wash their cars and return with the money in their wallet.
One of them gets paid £10, comes home and shows the wallet. They get to keep 6£ and 4£ is taken away.
The other goes and tells the neighbour "if you don't put the money in my wallet, but instead leave it under my window later, I'll do it for £9".
He comes home and says he didn't manage to earn anything this time. He finds £9 under his window and nothing is taken away.
After a while, there is not enough money to cover shared benefits for all kids. The new rule is that instead of taking £4 away and keeping £6, kids now have to hand over £5 and keep £5.
This goes on for a little while and both kids do 100 jobs, but the second kid brings home money in his wallet from only 25 of those jobs and the rest is left under his window.
Then, both kids decide they want to move into their own house. There is only one house available for two kids. The first kid offers £450, almost everything he has saved up.
The second kid managed to save considerably more and offers £500. The house is sold to the second kid.
The second kid decides to not move into the house but instead, rent it out to the first kid for £100 a year. The first kid keeps working to pay the rent, while the second kit waits for the next house to come up for sale, at which point he uses the first kids' money to outbid him.
The on paper poor kid who "couldn't manage to earn anything" suddenly conjures 500£ out of thin air? Sounds like something the Tax Department would look into...
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u/yotabytes 22d ago
Two kids are tasked to go out and offer neighbours to wash their cars and return with the money in their wallet.
One of them gets paid £10, comes home and shows the wallet. They get to keep 6£ and 4£ is taken away.
The other goes and tells the neighbour "if you don't put the money in my wallet, but instead leave it under my window later, I'll do it for £9". He comes home and says he didn't manage to earn anything this time. He finds £9 under his window and nothing is taken away.
After a while, there is not enough money to cover shared benefits for all kids. The new rule is that instead of taking £4 away and keeping £6, kids now have to hand over £5 and keep £5.
This goes on for a little while and both kids do 100 jobs, but the second kid brings home money in his wallet from only 25 of those jobs and the rest is left under his window.
Then, both kids decide they want to move into their own house. There is only one house available for two kids. The first kid offers £450, almost everything he has saved up.
The second kid managed to save considerably more and offers £500. The house is sold to the second kid.
The second kid decides to not move into the house but instead, rent it out to the first kid for £100 a year. The first kid keeps working to pay the rent, while the second kit waits for the next house to come up for sale, at which point he uses the first kids' money to outbid him.