Would Your Pay Increase if You Told How Much More Generous You Would Be?
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 3, 2012 9:47pm CST
I went to breakfast at Jeff's Country Cafe (near NW 32nd & Classen, Oklahoma City), and was surprised when a person seeing me from far away paid for my breakfast. To show my appreciation, the only thing I can do is 'pay it forward.'
That person was probably 'paying forward' from sometime someone had bought a meal for them, and I expect I'll probably 'pay it forward' the same way sometime later. But it got me thinking about "credit," mostly 'why I don't have it.'
I don't have it, because (other than my 'stretching to make ends meet'-annuity I "settled"-for when I thought I had an upcoming award that would fill in to-overflowing where the settlement I got was tearing & showing-through) I don't have a large-enough steady income.
If I had such an income, I would be able to 'pay it forward' immediately---i.e. I'd have a contract (mental or physical) that would tell me "You don't need the money you've got, you've got a steady flow comin` in! 
I've got steady money, but only a steady 'trickle' of it ... I've got to wait and be careful for a few weeks just to get an extra 'gulp' out of it (that's a coupl`a drinks at the Karaoke bar and a full meal at the Asian Super-Buffet), and I've got to skip a gulp-or-two (or three or ten ... my cup is huge
) if I want to let my cup overflow for a couple brothers-&-sisters.
Then I thought about the people I'm 'paying it forward' from---including the one at Jeff's Country Cafe, the ones from the insurance-company that handles my annuity, AND (and here's where I'm thinking of 'who's paying you' too) the employers, managers, owners etc. who gracefully assume the debt their employees' lives bring-up.
Don't they want to know that the amount they're paying us is being used to make the world better? How can we show them that paying us more would make the world better FASTER (not just for ourselves, but for all the lives we touch)?
I've got steady money, but only a steady 'trickle' of it ... I've got to wait and be careful for a few weeks just to get an extra 'gulp' out of it (that's a coupl`a drinks at the Karaoke bar and a full meal at the Asian Super-Buffet), and I've got to skip a gulp-or-two (or three or ten ... my cup is huge) if I want to let my cup overflow for a couple brothers-&-sisters.
Then I thought about the people I'm 'paying it forward' from---including the one at Jeff's Country Cafe, the ones from the insurance-company that handles my annuity, AND (and here's where I'm thinking of 'who's paying you' too) the employers, managers, owners etc. who gracefully assume the debt their employees' lives bring-up.
Don't they want to know that the amount they're paying us is being used to make the world better? How can we show them that paying us more would make the world better FASTER (not just for ourselves, but for all the lives we touch)?1 person likes this
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
5 Jul 12
Not all people think as you do, and this is where your day-dream turns into a night-mare! If all the world's wealth was spread equally amongst all the world's people, 7 years later it would all be back in the pockets those who held it previously. That you should even mention an "Insurance Company," gracefully assuming their employees debt to make a better world is laughable, because everyone knows Insurance is one of the world's mammoth schemes that extracts money from the poorest people.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
21 Jul 12
That's why I phrased the question 'Would they pay more if they knew how much more generous you would be?' & not t`other way `round.
For instance, if I were to write the Insurance Company that pays my monthly thing and tell them what I'm doing (supporting local businesses) & imply/say that I'd be able to do that much more (being fine with the level of housing I'm living in & with the basic entertainment-stuff I have), do you think they would pay me more ... as it really would be "stimulus money."
Maybe I just phrased that before as a strategy that everyone could use, but I really just meant it for me 
