Courtesy of David Henderson, who's a Libertarian's Libertarian, and quickly becoming one of my favorite reads:
Ralph had brought along copies of his latest book for sale for $27.50. Earlier, in his lunch talk, he had said that we don't really have freedom of contract because corporations give us boilerplate contracts that don't allow us to change the terms. It's take it or leave it. I wanted an autographed copy but I didn't want to pay $27.50. So I went up to him while he was autographing and put my arm around him and said, "You know how you think we should be able to negotiate and you don't like take or it leave it deals." I held out a $20 bill and said, "I'll give you $20." He grinned and knew he was trapped. "How about $22?," he said. "Deal," I said. I opened my wallet and didn't have two ones and his aide noticed a $5 in there and said, "What about $25?" "No," I said. "But you have $25," said his aide. "Right," I said, "and $25 is not $22." Ralph pulled out three ones and we finished the transaction.
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