Rafe Furst and I were discussing my predisposition for staying in the cheapest hotel within walking distance of the hotel I actually play poker in despite having the resources to pay for the more expensive properties. The money I save just stays in a fungible heap of other money and isn’t really earmarked for anything.
I posit that the hotel I stay in (let’s call it the Imperial Palace) though low end by Vegas standards is nicer than the normal living quarters of 75% of the world’s population. Given that I am in the room to sleep and shower, do I really need a nicer place? Is it karmically bad to stay in a nicer place that I’m not really using?
We came up with the following idea. On my next trip I will stay at the IP again but donate half the difference between its cost and the cost at Caesar’s Palace to a charity for the homeless. So now my frugality has a point.
The accommodation scenario is easy. It gets more complex when I decide between Subway meatball subs and the meatball appetizer at Rao’s…
Thoughts?
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Alex Golubev 11:50 am on June 24, 2009 Permalink |
why don’t you use half the difference between the IP and CP costs to buy both meatballs. sorry, it’s lunchtime in seattle. In fact you can splurge on a cookie or something considering the cab fare you’ll be saving. and then you can split the feast with a nice vegas bum. i’m sure it will make for interesting conversation on complex adaptive systems.
Lana Waggoner 8:01 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink |
Theory of Relativity – is it nicer by 75% than your normal living quarters?
“Given that I am in the room to sleep and shower,” – Please consider how much of you life you spend sleeping.
Is it karmically bad to stay in a nicer place that I’m not really using? – I would argue that karma is both more complex and adaptive.
It may be useful to assess your own karmic debt that you feel compelled to stay at the IP.
P.S. Terribles is near the Hard Rock and pretty inexpensive by the way
marissa 8:21 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink |
Motel 6 is nicer than 75% of the world’s living quarters…..
ace 7:38 pm on August 16, 2009 Permalink |
I just got back from Vegas and took a slightly different tack. i stayed the first few nights at my cheap place and the last two at Rafe’s condo. It would have been $125 per night to stay at the hotel on the final two nights so I split the difference and donated $125 to Habitat for Humanity of Las Vegas