The High Cost of Living
I recently got this email from my old co-worker Luis. Luis is from Venezuela, and came to Portland by way of Toronto. After we both got laid off last week, we discussed some of the options we have. He obviously has fewer due to his status as a foreign national here on a work visa, but he kind of evens that out since he is good at architecting and I pretty much suck at it.
Anyway, the point is that Luis was evidently contacted by a supposed Government agency that asked him what value he puts on his children. They asked him in these tough times if he were to give up one of his children to be put into a Government Secret Training Program that could potentially endow said child with either super powers or hideous deformities in the name of National Securities and also in the name of Science, which child would he be willing to give up, and how much food would he ask to be bribed in order to give up that child. I did some hacking into the com-puters to find out this data once I heard about it since it seemed so far fetched. Sort of like if 24 was written by the people what write Lost and then showed the show on The Food Network. Here is some of the data I found. The amount of food each family was willing to accept is shown below, along with the preferred family member to be experimented on circled in red. Pretty interesting stuff.
Luis is first.
This is the Anderson household from Boise Idaho.
The Humbertsons from Cobb County Georgia answered incorrectly and thought they only got to keep one kid.
The Hendrix family from North College Hill Ohio tried to trick the census takers and offer up their next door neighbor just to get one more pizza.
The Magnussons from Montpelier Vermont didn't do anything interesting, but the dad wanted a lot of beer to numb the pain.
The Van Wafers of Gross Point Michigan weren't involved in the study, and were just photographed during a garage sale they were having in order to provide a sort of median point for the study.
Anyway, the point is that Luis was evidently contacted by a supposed Government agency that asked him what value he puts on his children. They asked him in these tough times if he were to give up one of his children to be put into a Government Secret Training Program that could potentially endow said child with either super powers or hideous deformities in the name of National Securities and also in the name of Science, which child would he be willing to give up, and how much food would he ask to be bribed in order to give up that child. I did some hacking into the com-puters to find out this data once I heard about it since it seemed so far fetched. Sort of like if 24 was written by the people what write Lost and then showed the show on The Food Network. Here is some of the data I found. The amount of food each family was willing to accept is shown below, along with the preferred family member to be experimented on circled in red. Pretty interesting stuff.
Luis is first.
This is the Anderson household from Boise Idaho.
The Humbertsons from Cobb County Georgia answered incorrectly and thought they only got to keep one kid.
The Hendrix family from North College Hill Ohio tried to trick the census takers and offer up their next door neighbor just to get one more pizza.
The Magnussons from Montpelier Vermont didn't do anything interesting, but the dad wanted a lot of beer to numb the pain.
The Van Wafers of Gross Point Michigan weren't involved in the study, and were just photographed during a garage sale they were having in order to provide a sort of median point for the study.
posted by The Cruise at 2:26 PM
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