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So the elf wants some T.V. and I get to shopping. No matter where you go around here T.V. runs you quite a bit of money. With Dish or DirectTV right now it seems I have to spend at least $35/month to get basic cable-ish channels and the local channels. With Comcast I can get a promotion for 6 months and then the price jumps to $350/month plus the sacrifice of one child plus an installation fee of three kidneys. And I only have two and need at least one.

On the bright side though, I called Comcast and spoke with a rep and she was able to waive the installation fee. I will keep this discounted service for 6 months and at that point either cancel or see if they will waive the payment of my T.V.’s weight in gold and the human sacrifice. If I can pull off back to back discount periods then I can justify the silly expense.

More fun and mathy-geeky-nerdiness after the link.

Here are some helpful diagrams:

Please note that there is an initial net increase in utility (to me) from the sacrifice of a few souls. These are mostly lawyers… and terrorists. And slow drivers on the interstate. But before long we run out of those people and then the dUtility/dSouls becomes negative. Kidneys are similar to this except that I only have two so there is no initial increase from the first kidney and a graph with only two points is pretty lame.

This Edgeworth box shows the original equilibrium state of me watching whatever I want on TV whenever I want and playing video games on the TV whenever I want. Yes, me watching whatever I want meant nothing at all but that is neither here nor there. The new state is where the elf watches garbage like A.N.T.M. and interrupting my video game time. This is not a Pareto improvement.

I could have drawn indifference curves but the web drawing tool I was using to make these was annoying and I really couldn’t get myself interested in drawing them.