The Traveller's Dilemma

[jyxtrant]

I was reading on Scientific American about the Traveler's Dilemma.  The article explains this quandary thusly:

Lucy and Pete, returning from a remote Pacific island, find that the airline has damaged the identical antiques that each had purchased. An airline manager says that he is happy to compensate them but is handicapped by being clueless about

Comments

[wizard_stan]

I think you're overthinking the problem :P

[jyxtrant]

well, yes. But I'm more proposing a new problem.

One that questions social justice.

...Please think of me as wearing a superhero outfit while you read that last line :D

[discodoris]

Value as opposed to price is a thorny issue - especially when it comes to wage setting. Especially when you consider how people that offer true value to society, through teaching, healthcare, law enforcement, rescue services are recompensed by society, as opposed to professions such as advertising executive...