Cattle Herding... (was Re: in praise of gold)
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Tue Nov 27 06:52:04 PST 2001
At 05:21 PM 11/26/01 -0800, georgemw at speakeasy.net wrote:
>
>Cows might have served well as currency for primitives like the
>Etruscans, but can you imagine using them today? I took
>a bus this morning, the fair was 1.10 and I only had paper money
>so they ripped me off 90 cents. But if I was an Etruscan, they
>would've taken my whole cow!
You would have gotten a goat and two chickens in change.
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