According to Gresham’s law, people historically spent coins with the worst metal content first and stashed the best. This suggests that Ea-nāṣir’s shitty copper is still in circulation.
I find it strangely comforting that shitty copper merchant Ea-nāṣir touches our lives today from his own time, almost 4 millenia ago. Through his legend of shitty business practices, he lives on...
Apparently I heard we only know of how shitty he is because someone probably burned his house down and he fled suddenly? It baked the bad reviews he kept in his house (lol) into something that could survive to today.
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Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 21 pts · 103d
I find it strangely comforting that shitty copper merchant Ea-nāṣir touches our lives today from his own time, almost 4 millenia ago. Through his legend of shitty business practices, he lives on...
iocase@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 103d
Apparently I heard we only know of how shitty he is because someone probably burned his house down and he fled suddenly? It baked the bad reviews he kept in his house (lol) into something that could survive to today.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 103d
Now this is a shower thought. It's in my pipes.
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 103d
PugJesus would like to redirect you towards c/historymemes@piefed.social
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 103d
Correct link: !historymemes@piefed.social
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 103d
Cheers, still fairly new to Lemmy so couldn't remember how you're meant to link
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 103d
But it’s probably very diluted, considering how much copper has been mined in the last 4000 years.
BTW, it’s also likely, that your car battery has some lead from Roman pipes. Once again, highly diluted, but still.