Puzzlers -- Answering the Economic Crisis
Hi Guys:
I have a suggestion about how you can solve the world economic crisis by increasing the number of Puzzlers. Here is how it works.
1. Have more Puzzlers. 2. Have more winners. 3. Give away more $25 gift certificates to winners. 4. Make sure nothing in the Shameless Commerce Division sells for exactly $25. 5. Allow winners to contribute unused gift certificates to Click and Clack's "Solve the World Economic Crisis" Fund. 6. Save up the money and give it to all the countries in economic trouble.
If we assume that you give away only one gift certificate each week and that winners spend, on average, $23, you could contribute $104 per year to solving this problem. If we also assume that we need to save up $100 billion to solve this problem, it would take roughly 1 billion years to save up enough money.
However, if you started having two Puzzlers per week, you could save the world in 500 million years--500 million years sooner than with only one Puzzler per week. Wow!
Some might say that 500 million years is too long to wait to solve this problem, but I would argue that at least you are doing something, which is more than most can say.
What do you think?
Doug Redding
Marblehead, MA