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I found this article today, which talks about how the relatively poor in European countries use IKEA stores as an alternative to welfare.
Obviously some are blatantly exploiting the free services of IKEA, such as parents who drop off their children at the store’s day care facility, and then take off to run errands elsewhere. [...]

I found this article over at the WSJ (via reedit). It’s a pretty good introduction to some economic theories on cost/benefit sharing. If you watched and enjoyed the scene in A Beautiful Mind where John Nash works out the best way to get the girls, you’ll probably also enjoy this article (his theory [...]