Borrow humorous jokes

I didn't quite understand one of the previous answers just now. Let me give you my opinion.

This question seems normal and logical, but it is actually a false proposition and incorrect.

Let's get rid of the tenants, which means the story is changed to this. The shopkeeper himself returned 1000 yuan to the butcher, the butcher returned it to the pig farmers, the pig farmers returned it to the supplier, the supplier returned it to the prostitute, and the prostitute returned it to the shopkeeper. These are the five people in this story, so who lost 1000 yuan in the end? A prostitute, because she was the last one. The last one went back to the first one, which means that the last one lost 1000 yuan. This is the normal idea of paying back money.

It's just that a tenant is added to this problem, and the word confused deposit is used, which is actually equivalent to 1000 yuan borrowed by the owner. We can add another person to the normal idea of paying back the money.

The tenant returned to the shopkeeper 1000, the shopkeeper returned to the butcher, the butcher returned to the pig farmer, the pig farmer returned to the supplier, the supplier returned to the prostitute, the prostitute returned to the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper returned to the tenant. Similarly, the last one is returned to the first one, that is, the owner returns it to the tenant, which is equivalent to the owner's loss of 1 000 yuan. In fact, all this is confusing and does not exist.

This story is actually not a joke. Illegal pyramid selling is a good example. Why do so many people believe in pyramid schemes? Because we don't understand this simple math joke, everyone's money is spinning around in it, and it is impossible for four people to win and lose all in mahjong. The essence of pyramid selling is similar to this. When a family develops into the next family, the next family can become the second family if it pays 1 000 yuan, and the other family can become the third family if it gives it to the second family. The last person to go home is the most unlucky person.

I hope you can see the seriousness of the problem from this problem. At the same time, mathematics is also a very interesting subject, which can teach us a lot of truth. It's not easy to adopt after playing so much.