If I loan you an item ostensibly for a month, and regret it, I will do significantly less damage asking you to return it in a week than asking you to return it immediately.
So, a good samaritan Alice gave her friend John an item for some time, then she realized she wants to use the item herself. It’s already the case that only John is getting something out of this agreement, so why should Alice take on additional costs of waiting another week?
Edit: unless John actually gave Alice money for borrowing her item. IMO people should pay each other money for various acts that provide value much more often than the do.
That is covered in the article. Alice should take on that cost to reduce the cost to John, demonstrating that she takes seriously the commitment she has broken rather than just scrapping it the moment it did not suit her.
IMO people should pay each other money for various acts that provide value much more often than the do.
Within a social circle, non-denominated performance of favours is the usual method, the magnitudes involved decreasing with distance, although never quite to zero. That way of doing things is the social fabric.
I do not ask money for giving a stranger in the street directions to where he wants to go.
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So, a good samaritan Alice gave her friend John an item for some time, then she realized she wants to use the item herself. It’s already the case that only John is getting something out of this agreement, so why should Alice take on additional costs of waiting another week?
Edit: unless John actually gave Alice money for borrowing her item. IMO people should pay each other money for various acts that provide value much more often than the do.
That is covered in the article. Alice should take on that cost to reduce the cost to John, demonstrating that she takes seriously the commitment she has broken rather than just scrapping it the moment it did not suit her.
Within a social circle, non-denominated performance of favours is the usual method, the magnitudes involved decreasing with distance, although never quite to zero. That way of doing things is the social fabric.
I do not ask money for giving a stranger in the street directions to where he wants to go.