Idle question for the Doper community - everyone get out your santimonious hats and judgemental socks and let’s go to town!
This question is based on my real-life office, which has a small unmanned (no receptionist) lobby. You walk in from the sidewalk, sidle up to the elevator/stairs, and off you go. The office management provides, as a courtesy, a stack of about ten or so newspapers (I believe it’s the Wall St. Journal or the NYT - one of the biggies) with a little sign saying “Complimentary of [CompanyName].” Some days, a few are left at the end of the day, so I don’t think they’re a scarce resource.
Let’s say you work there and saw that one section of the paper had a bunch of interesting articles that day, but no other secion is even remotely interesting. Is it better to take an entire newspaper knowing you only want part of it? Or is it better to leave the rest for someone else, with the knowlege that someone might pick up a paper hoping to read the whole thing only to be disappointed that the section you took is gone?
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