But the shopkeeper nonetheless says, " Well, if I shortchange this customer, word may get out, my reputation would be damaged, and I would lose business, so I won't shortchange this customer."
It reminds us that we're no longer on a gold standard, so finding the money to pay for the things we need is never an issue for countries like the US or the UK.
Hopefully, maybe helpful with funding too as people probably know who are scientists, it's a difficult landscape to try to get funding for scientific research.
But he had gone down for money on the Monday evening, had been refused, and it was plain enough that he had helped himself in this way; he had threatened revenge, and this was it.