[Sloooooowly starts reeling him in. Heeeeeere, little fishy Rua...]
Ah. That, you see, is one of the benefits of putting money into a bank.
Because a bank 'uses' the money people are not touching--which is far too complicated to explain right now, but rest assured that you will always get it back when you wish--they will give you a thank-you gift of extra money in return. Therefore, the longer you leave it alone, the more extra you will have... and the more extra that you have, the much more extra you will get.
Here: assume they give you one extra dollar for every ten you let them borrow for two months, generally speaking.
100+10=110. 110+11=121. 121+12=132. 132+13=145. 145+14=159. 159+16 (for the sake of even numbers)=175.
If you allow them to hold onto your 100 for an entire year, you would gain nearly that much again just for being patient. Or--just short of twice as much candy in one go as if you spent it all right now.
And of course... if you have extra candy, it would not be necessary for you to spend another 100 dollars again nearly so soon. So while you are enjoying what is essentially free candy by that point, you may add the next 100 dollars you now do not need to spend to the bank... and get extra on that. It is a repeating cycle, you see.
Patience pays off far better in the long run than greed, Rua.
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Ah. That, you see, is one of the benefits of putting money into a bank.
Because a bank 'uses' the money people are not touching--which is far too complicated to explain right now, but rest assured that you will always get it back when you wish--they will give you a thank-you gift of extra money in return. Therefore, the longer you leave it alone, the more extra you will have... and the more extra that you have, the much more extra you will get.
Here: assume they give you one extra dollar for every ten you let them borrow for two months, generally speaking.
100+10=110.
110+11=121.
121+12=132.
132+13=145.
145+14=159.
159+16 (for the sake of even numbers)=175.
If you allow them to hold onto your 100 for an entire year, you would gain nearly that much again just for being patient. Or--just short of twice as much candy in one go as if you spent it all right now.
And of course... if you have extra candy, it would not be necessary for you to spend another 100 dollars again nearly so soon. So while you are enjoying what is essentially free candy by that point, you may add the next 100 dollars you now do not need to spend to the bank... and get extra on that. It is a repeating cycle, you see.
Patience pays off far better in the long run than greed, Rua.