Confusing question

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Here's another one for you

On this particular day a rich tourist from back west is driving thru town.
He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store.

The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit.
She, in a flash rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner.
The motel proprietor now places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money & leaves.

NOW,… no one produced anything…and no one earned anything…however the whole town is out of debt

Have you taken that from a Liz Truss budget speech?

Trickle down economics at its finest. ;-)

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

If the thief is that Kaveri Soclueless from Sky, he's walked out with goods worth £60 for £30.

 

[Coatigan]

But he hasn't stolen the £100. Full stop. End off.

Oh wait. So this is a hypothetical question?

 

[urban genie]

To makecit understandable

A shop keeper has a till float of £200 he puts in when he opens
someone comes in and while he is busy this person takes £100 out of the till

throughout the day the shop males sales totalling £780

when the owner closes the shop and takes off the till he first removes the £200 float then banks the rest, but finds he only has £680 left after removing the float, that is because £100 has been stolen irrelevent if it has been used later to purchase items by the thief, the till will still be £100 down

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Here's another one for you

On this particular day a rich tourist from back west is driving thru town.
He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store.

The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit.
She, in a flash rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner.
The motel proprietor now places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money & leaves.

NOW,… no one produced anything…and no one earned anything…however the whole town is out of debt

This wasn’t Crosshaven by any chance?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

This wasn’t Crosshaven by any chance?

Certainly not.
The yacht club wouldn't allow it.

 

[Bill Walker]

A man steals £100 from a shop’s cash register
He then carries on round the store and picks up £70 worth of goods
He goes to the checkout , pays for the goods with the stolen money and leaves the store with £70 worth of goods and £30 in cash

How much has the store lost?

Doesn't happen in cashless society :)

Anyway without reading the Fred, the shop has lost 30 quid and the goods.

They haven't lost 100 quid as the goods he bought didn't cost them (the shop) the retail price.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Chop his hands off, the thieving bastard.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Here's another one for you

On this particular day a rich tourist from back west is driving thru town.
He stops at the motel and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.
As soon as the man walks upstairs, the owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.
The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill at the feed store.

The guy at the Farmer’s Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her services on credit.
She, in a flash rushes to the motel and pays off her room bill with the motel owner.
The motel proprietor now places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, picks up the $100 bill, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money & leaves.

NOW,… no one produced anything…and no one earned anything…however the whole town is out of debt

The rich tourist bit is a smokescreen. Everyone in the town was in debt by $100 and also owed $100, it’s just that everybody was only in debt to a single unique person.

The motel owner could have told the prostitute to go pay the butcher’s bill, who tells her to go pay the farmer, who tells her to go pay the feed store who realises if she gives him $100 dollars he’d only have to pay her it back.

 

[Zubrman]

A man steals £100 from a shop’s cash register
He then carries on round the store and picks up £70 worth of goods
He goes to the checkout , pays for the goods with the stolen money and leaves the store with £70 worth of goods and £30 in cash

How much has the store lost?

What the store has lost is much less than what the man has lost as he had his bike nicked which he'd left outside the shop.