Okay - This is really cool. Earthlings are about to evolve. No baloney. I witnessed it myself.
See, They have this holiday were everyone give everyone else presents. All even Steven. The idea is that they all spend as much on each other as they get spent on themselves. That's the whole point. Evenness.
Normally they give each other things, like bikes, books, toys. Could be a car. It doesn't matter, as long as it's not cash. If you give someone cash, it's bad. So they never give cash. A problem comes up when they're trying to make everything come up equal. Sometimes their short, so they have to come up with something quick.
Enter the check card. Check cards are pieces of plastic that they say have value. (You would think that would be enough to warn them away.) They will even say right on them that they are better than money. (Warning two: There's nothing better at being money than money.) The kicker is that check cards cost more than they are worth. It even says that right on them! "This blah-dee-blah priced check card only costs blah-dee-blah-dee-blah."
This means that some of them have figured out how stupid they all are. Why would someone spend more for something than it is worth, especially when it says right on it that it isn't worth as much as they are going to pay for it? It says it right on it. But they still buy them.
This is so cool.
It's one thing when a species figures out how smart it is. They start making all kinds of cool things. It's a whole other thing when they figure out how dumb they are. Then they get more humble and stop killing each other.
Obeserver003 - Earthlings
