A visible cash prop makes an abstract settlement offer feel concrete.

Evidence

Facher was exasperated. “I don’t understand why you won’t give me a number, any goddamn number.” He reached into his hip pocket, pulled out his wallet, and slapped a twenty-dollar bill on his desk. He leaned back in his chair. “What if I put six zeros on the end of that. Would you take it?” — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 1283

Categorization

• CANDY: A twenty-dollar bill slapped on the desk as a stand-in for twenty million — the deal’s scale reduced to a piece of pocket cash.
• XREF: connects to: Game offers track whether people see money as shared or personal. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 136; Heterogeneous reciprocal gifts injected with money’s character resemble purchase

Broader Connections

• Heterogeneous reciprocal gifts injected with money’s character resemble purchase #complicates (0.80)
• Game offers track whether people see money as shared or personal. #complicates (0.70) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 136