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Story - The $1 Challenge

picture me holding $1 coins in hand. now, i'm going to tell you and the stranger next to you, this:

i'm going to give that stranger 90 cents and give you just 10 cents now. but you have a choice, you can take the 10 cents and let that stranger get away with 90 cents, or, you can chose to decline and both gets none.

what's your choice?

leave you ans in the comments, but dun explain why.

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