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You are offered $100 but you cannot have it unless you give some of it away. The second person must accept the offer you make with no negotiation allowed. For example, I offer you $1 out of my hundred. If you say yes you get $1 and I get $99. If you say no, neither of us gets anything. Both people win, right? Well, this experiment has been run and most "educated" westerners reject anything less that 40 out of the 100 dollars. Sick twisted jealous morons.

I know what you mean, because I am one.  I can not recall how many offers I've received where all I've had to do to get millions of dollars for nothing was to just give somebody in Africa my bank account information and let them launder their money through me.  The thing is, they are always trying to cheat me by only offering a few measly millions--typically no more than about 10% to 20% of the overall take.  I figure screw that, I want half!  But they never offer that much, so I always just blow them off.  Sheesh, maybe I should have stopped being so greedy for once, and just taken the couple million... I mean, $5million in the bank beats $30million still sitting there back in the Nigerian bush, right?

 

It's an experiment that's been run by researchers.  They offer two people a deal.  Person one is offered one hundred dollars but can't get it unless person two agrees to let them have it.  Person one then has to entice two into the deal.  Two has no chance at the money on their own, nor any opportunity to be in the position of person one.  The way it works in person one decides on a figure, then person 2 is told the number and says yes or no.  If they say yes they get money and so does person one.  If they say no, neither person gets anything. 

Your incoherent reply shows your inability to grasp even a simple experiment in evolutionary economics/psychology.  Both people benefit when person 2 says yes even if it's a 99/1 split in favor of person 1.  It's envy, jealousy and mean spiritedness that leads the some of the people in the role of person 2 to say no.  Of course, if person 2 says no, then both end up equal, gaining nothing, but hey at least they're equal, huh?  Isn't that the lefty way?

Chill out, dude, I got it the first time, no need to repeat it.  My post was an attempt at a joke.  Obviously based on the details you've stated, Person B should accept regardless of the offer.  I know I would.

 

There is a wonderful example of free enterprise in action in the northern Virginia area called "slugging" that is somewhat like this scenario in action.  Due to a government-mandated High Occupancy Vehicle lane on some of the interstates leading in and out of DC, there are lanes relatively free of traffic during rush hour, but the catch is that to use one you must have two or three people in your vehicle (depending on which road you're on).  Due to this requirement, a market-driven solution sprang up wherein some people park at certain locations (typically commuter parking lots) and form lines based on their desired destination.  Meanwhile other people drive up in their vehicles to those lines based on their own desired destination.  A quick verbal contract is negotiated ("Pentagon?"  Yeah."), one or two (as required by the HOV regulation for that road) passengers get in, and they all get to their destination faster.  Money is never exchanged; that everyone gets where they want to go faster together than alone is satisfaction enough for all concerned.  I've been doing it off and on for 15years, and it works great.