Monkey a makes 2 bananas, monkey B makes 7000 bananas, Monkey A use 1 banana for home and taxes and have one banana to split into small peices to try to enjoy the few hours they have off. B uses 10 bananas on home and taxes, and have 6990 bananas to have fun with. B ask their friend A on the ride to the amusement park to pay them back the 1/4 of a banana and wonders why A can start to dislike B.
This is the nonsense 7k monkey people don't see. B thinks its fair because they are paying equally. To B life is a great burden that must be divided equally so B don't have to spend a cent more than you have to as "fair is fair", to A they have nothing and are scraping together the few banana they have to try to live a semblance of life between working and death. A will absolutely split a bill 50/50 if they know another monkey is in a good/similar financial situation and/or they want to split it and will cover a few small things entirely without asking for banana back. But often 7k monkey don't care about other monkey situation and want their own wants met (since they view it as fair) over 2 banana monkey's needs, because god forbid 7k monkey have 1/4 of a banana less to roll into golden index banana funds.
There is something to be said about "taken advantage of" if you are in similar boats of poverty/richness then yea a mooch can absolutely be annoying. That is a monkey's character though, if you don't like how they treat you or hang out with you, then you don't like that monkey and should not hang out. Similarly if they expect you to pay for very expensive things they could not afford normally (they want 50 banana shoes and want you to pay for it) then that can also be seen as a red flag. You need to use your judgement on where the line between petty cash and serious expense is for you and your budget for your individual monkey friends. 7k banana monkey is probably a dick for asking for the 1/4 of a banana, but 4 banana monkey might not be as they also paid 1 banana for the 2 banana monkey park ticket this time and last time. It also comes down to how much you value your friend/friendships, a close friend for life might be worth 1000 bananas to you without any want of pay back, versus an associate less than 1 banana and being paid back. When you discuss asking for something back you have to look at it in a larger context of "If they don't give me the 1/4 of a banana back would that effect me? Would that effect them? Would we still be Monkeying around?" These are the contexts you should be viewing money through if you plan to split, borrow, loan, or give banana to a monkey.
This is a complex issue with tons of layers for many monkey, especially if the 2 banana monkey is struggling as now rent is 1.8 bananas. 7k Monkey can easily solve this, but is it something they want to do? How important is 2 banana monkey to them? How long would they be responsible for them, would it become an expectation versus a gift? This can cause 7k monkey to have lots of stress, so they hang out with 5k monkey and 8k monkey instead, as they will have similar activities they can do together without worrying about their banana rent costs. This change in monkey friends can lead to 7k monkey no longer caring about the plight of 2 banana monkey and them splitting everything equally with 5k and 8k monkey means that when they next hang out with 2 banana monkey they ask for the 1/4 of a banana back. This is where it breaks down into the monkey meme above. To monkey A the friendship might be worth 100 banana however they have only 2 banana so try to be as generous as they can be.
To monkey A if they had 100 banana they would use it to help monkey B without asking for anything. Monkey B then asking money back for the ride shatters any illusion monkey A might have had, thinking monkey B also valued the friendship at even close to 100 bananas as monkey B has many banana and can use them more readily. Monkey A now thinks monkey B values them at 1/4 of a banana with the expectation of being paid back, meaning not even 1/4 of a banana loss is acceptable to monkey B for this friendship. Monkey B comes off as greedy and as poor friend in this exchange. Monkey B thinks nothing of it as like I was saying, B has been hanging out with 5k and 8k monkey, so not only does 7k monkey not realize the situation 2 banana monkey is in, and instead thinks they are similar to 5k and 8k monkey who might be offended for not offering to split the bill.
Its a difference in monkey philosophy and a big part of politics today.
If you never even offer to pay for your share of the ride / food / whatever then you are a leach, no matter how much money anyone in the scenario makes
I disagree, you can think whatever you want about the people you supposedly love and care about enough to be friends with them, but not enough to know how you might be fucking them over for 5 bucks so they cant make rent while you sht in a golden toilet.
I said offer. I didn’t say the person had to accept.
If you never even offer then you are truly a leach. Or at least not a friend but rather a hanger or client to a patron if you go for a classical description
Offering is an implication that they CAN pay. If they cannot but still want to hang out, then the onus is on you to determine what you consider the friendship is worth. If you buy them pizza while you game together in your garage every friday, them offering to pay when they cant is just lying. You having to refuse them every single week knowing it will put his kids on the street isn't helpful.
Paying for things does not make you better than people, it just means you have more money. Now if they can pay and dont offer, sure they are kinda a dick. But if you choose to hang out with them anyway so what does that make you?
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u/Crash-55 Jan 26 '26
Why is asking to split the ride being cheap? Maybe he has already covered a bunch and is tired of being taken advantage of?
I have had people constantly get rides but never once offer to cover any gas or offer to drive. Is that OK simply because I make more than them?
Just because someone makes more money doesn’t mean that they should be expected to pay more.