What if Nanni was the kind of person that complains that the Great Sand Dunes National Park is too sandy, and we have the complaint (presumably found in his house) because Ea-Nasir kept it to remind himself never to do business with Nanni again.
What if Nanni was the kind of person that complains that the Great Sand Dunes National Park is too sandy, and we have the complaint (presumably found in his house) because Ea-Nasir kept it to remind himself never to do business with Nanni again.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 181d
Nanni wasn't the only one, just the most famous.
Like, we found Ea Nasir's house, and it was filled with evidence that at one time he was trustworthy, and then just went to shit.
Like, we know ~5 other customers of his by name because they also left written records about him not delivering or cheating in other ways.
It wasn't a one off thing.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 181d
Enshittification has been around for a very very long time.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d
Maybe it was the equivalent of a competitor making a bunch of fake one-star Yelp reviews.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 178d
What if he kept them because they reminded him to strive to be better again? He would be trying to figure out wjat went wrong with the process and referring to the specific complaints people had in order to get tk the bottom of it
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 177d
Because there's also records of him getting wasted at the palace all day...
You can check out the Wikipedia, I didn't link it a couple days ago and going off memory
cryptiod137@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 181d
They found multiple complaints from different people, at some point we have to accept his copper was bad
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 181d
Did they ever find contrary comments giving praise to his copper? What's the ratio of likes vs dislikes? They shoulda invented Yelp thousands of years earlier.
cryptiod137@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 181d
One never got his copper, and another said he was tired of receiving bad copper.
No positive reviews survived, if there were any
1.2/5 stars would not place order for copper ingots again
early_riser@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 180d
To be fair, if people acted back then more or less as they do now, they'd be more inclined to leave a negative review than a positive one. All the more so considering the effort involved in writing, the skills and materials needed to write, were rarer back then, and the effort just to transmit the message after it was written would not be trivial, either.
gon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 181d
Upon reading his Wikipedia page, it seems that we likely didn't really get him wrong. Not too wrong, anyway.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 7 pts · 181d
Ea-Nasir The Archaeology of a Legend by solomonisms9000 (YT video) says it's complicated.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 181d
I read a history blogpost claiming that Ea-Nasir was a patriotic (but hot-tempered) man who carried on trying to sell his home town's copper long after they had mined out the good deposits.
RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 181d
Yeah he was the first scrapper. Probably stole that copper from a defungled monument.