Say there was a group of folks that liked getting tattoos while skydiving naked.
Say for some reason, they wanted to stop doing that so much.
They decide to charge a luxury tax on themselves for doing it.
So that if anyone went skydiving naked and got a tattoo on the way down, they’d pay all the other members of the club some non-trivial fee.
That would be a little motivational device they could use to help curb their habit.
Now, suppose you’re someone that isn’t really interested in skydiving or getting tattoos. And they ask you if you want to join. There are no annual fees to be in the club, no risk, no catches, no gotchas. Just that once you’re a member of the club, you’d get paid out if someone got a tattoo while skydiving naked. And on the off chance that you did change your mind and decided that for your first tattoo, you would like to do it while skydiving naked, you would have to pay a little tax to everyone else in the club. But that’s unlikely.
So there’s really no risk, only reward for being in this club, of recovering skydiving tattoo addicts.
I don’t see any reason to not join. So when someone at lunch told me they weren’t interested in joining the club, I couldn’t understand it. Why wouldn’t anyone that doesn’t have any tendencies towards tattoos, public nudity and skydiving not want to join?
They just want to keep their options open? I don’t get it.
And yes Brian, I’m talking about you.