If you earn more should you be more generous?

singist said:
"we just split the bill between us then?"
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Thats one thing I do not like doing.

Sometimes people order less or order cheaper food because they can't afford to pay for the expensive items but end up footing the bill for everyone else.

Its happened to me a few times that I have just ordered a salad water and ended up paying 3 times as much as my bill.
 
Toxic Babyface said:
You sound like a decent chap. Not many people would do such a thing. Your friend also sounds like a very decent fella for wanting to pay that money back. So many people I know would never even think of paying that back. If I was that person, I know I certainly would.
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Yah he is a really decent guy, I am lucky I have a few close friends in my life like him:D
 
SuperMan said:
And I don't mean giving to charity etc. but like if 4 of you and your friends go out and you earn say treble or double what they do should you pay for more drinks? Offer to pay for the meal?

Or you work to earn it, your money?
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Many of my friends would be offended if I offered to pay on a night out.
 
It's my experience that people richer than me actually feel poorer than me.
People tend to live by their means and have bigger debts the more money they earn.
Obviously if it's somebody who has just won 10 million on the lottery then that's different.
 
No those who earn less should buy more drinks because they have a chance of getting free knowledge about how they can make more like me especially when i start getting drunk.

But seriously i have never failed to get money not only for my drinks but also for my friends' as long as i am the one who invited you for a drink.
 
I'm generally fairly generous and will play at least my fair part in rounds, and will occaisionally just treat mates, whatever it's to. But it's nothing to do with what I earn, it's just to do with them being my friends. If my friend can't afford a beer, I'll get them one, who wouldn't? The only time I have really explicitly splashed the cash is if I've won money at the casino or similar, and then it's just letting my friends share in my winnings.
 
[FnG]magnolia;20020366 said:
although I wouldn't choose to have friends who expected it of me.
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Definitely not, it would suggest to me that they weren't really friends. Except a general awareness so as to not be inappropriate I'd never really take an interest in what my friends earn.
 
Man rules: everyone pays equally, no-one so much as hints they might be a little strapped.

However...

If you genuinely earn a lot more than your friends, it is good gesture to pay for a meal now and again, but only by prior arangement: offering on the spot just causes problems.


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If I was earning significantly more than my friends there's a good chance I'd offer to pay for more than my "share" because I'd like to share the wealth, so to speak, and there's a at least a fair chance that they'd do the same if the positions were reversed. They're unlikely to expect me to pay more though and anyone who did expect it isn't likely to remain as a friend for very long.

Most of the time though it all gets split pretty equally whether in simple monetary terms or just a variation on the round system.
 
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