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nibbleshifter

This was... Weird.

Like, none of the "awkward examples" really track as awkward?

I genuinely don't get the point of this article.

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How would you rate the amount of financial disparity between yourself and friends/family?

Pretty huge disparity in some cases.

It has never really been an issue or caused awkwardness/weirdness.

Also the mapping from ‘awkwardness’ to ‘looks like bribery’ seems assumed and not justified.

To me, if you compare an interaction with friends as feeling like bribery, I question the friendship a bit. Maybe its just me, but spending money/time/whatever in any way with/for friends shouldn't feel that way..

Yeah, if there's such a feeling in what should be a normal interaction, I'd question the friendship

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