Meet em half way

Me - "$x"
Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$4x"

Bargaining.
Sometimes called an art. Has been known to cause some bloodspills in some cases, I heard.
Sometimes called anarchy.

Me little head suspects that bargaining is supposed to create the so called win win situation.
...caveat being involved parties are perfectly aligned and satisfied with the transaction.

Does this ever happen in real life? Seldom I suspect.

What about monopolies? They apparently got what we need...In a world where Adam Smith's invisible hand seemingly rules...We are fucked. Come to think of it, Mr. Smith's invisible hand seems to be showing us the middle finger.

What about the fine print?
Why oh why does fine print exist? I want to know which baastich company was the first to do this in their print ad!!! Anyone out there knows? wikipedia does not seem to know either.
We are fucked!

Freebies?
...
...

yeah - why not. So long as I have an option to not fork out more money to you Mr. Salesman!

Freebies = Cognitive dissonance

Me - "$x"

Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$4x"

Me - $2x

Entrepreneur/dodgy salesperson/taxi driver in some cities who doesnt turn on the meter/your part time computer technician/some policeman in some part of the world/your dad/your prospective ebay customer/your stock broker/your wife/your teenage child/your consultant -"$3x"

Me + Adam Smith walks away waving our invisible hand