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WCDT Strips 3426-3430 (27 February - 3 March 2017)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Tova on 02 Mar 2017, 14:29 ---I don't think that Hanners is so dislocated from reality that she thinks $3000 doesn't mean anything to Dora. I think it's far more likely that it didn't occur to Hanners that an old cheap-looking clock is rare and thus valuable.
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I never said that Hanners was "dislocated from reality", nor did I imply it. All I said was that she might have a different way of viewing money due to her background. Especially considering she grew up on a space station through her childhood and teenage years. What I was saying is that Hanners has a different perception of money compared to her friends.
Think of it like this - I assume that you are, like me, from a Eurozone country. My first job was around the time of the Euro switchover, so I was earning about £80 a week, so £5 was used for everything and £20 notes were pretty common and under no circumstances, you never saw a £50 note. Then the switchover, and the €20 became the new £5 and €50 were everywhere. 16 years later, I still shudder when I have to break a €50 note, but you look at someone who might be a few years younger, they can hand it over without a second thought. A different perception.
Kugai:
So, Dora is trying to get a leg up in the antiques business :claireface:
I think there are some jokes that Hanners is uncomfortable with if they carry on too long.
Tova:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 03 Mar 2017, 11:02 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 02 Mar 2017, 14:29 ---I don't think that Hanners is so dislocated from reality that she thinks $3000 doesn't mean anything to Dora. I think it's far more likely that it didn't occur to Hanners that an old cheap-looking clock is rare and thus valuable.
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I never said that Hanners was "dislocated from reality", nor did I imply it. All I said was that she might have a different way of viewing money due to her background. Especially considering she grew up on a space station through her childhood and teenage years. What I was saying is that Hanners has a different perception of money compared to her friends.
Think of it like this - I assume that you are, like me, from a Eurozone country. My first job was around the time of the Euro switchover, so I was earning about £80 a week, so £5 was used for everything and £20 notes were pretty common and under no circumstances, you never saw a £50 note. Then the switchover, and the €20 became the new £5 and €50 were everywhere. 16 years later, I still shudder when I have to break a €50 note, but you look at someone who might be a few years younger, they can hand it over without a second thought. A different perception.
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Your example is a very different thing from assuming that because a few thousand dollars is small beer for you, then it must be small beer for everyone else as well.
If she merely feels that way about her own finances, then that is "a different perception."
If she thinks everyone else shares her perception, then that is "dislocated from reality."
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Tova on 03 Mar 2017, 17:30 ---
Your example is a very different thing from assuming that because a few thousand dollars is small beer for you, then it must be small beer for everyone else as well.
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Hanners has had a lot of worries in her life, but money has never been one of them from what we've seen. She has a job that she doesn't need for money, but for improving her own social skills.
Dora has, on several occasions, said that while CoD is doing alright, it could be doing better. She's a young entrepreneur, unless she was very diligent in saving her money, Dora more than likely had to borrow the money to set up CoD. She has to pay the wages of half a dozen employees, pay for supplies, pay bills and presumably pay back the money she might have borrowed. All that on top of her own needs, rent, food, something resembling her own wages. It can be jarring to see a large chunk of money like that go out the door without knowing it was there.
My original point was and remains that Dora is right to feel annoyed that there's money walking out the door and for Hanners seeming rather blase about it.
Tova:
I sympathise with her reaction (to money walking out the door), it's completely understandable.
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