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Money you can break down into strips or some poo poo representing fractional value of the bill would be convenient as hell tbh. As long as they weren't easy to tear accidentally.
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I can't believe doctors, witches, and soothsayers cost money in those times. How regressive!
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reignofevil posted:Money you can break down into strips or some poo poo representing fractional value of the bill would be convenient as hell tbh. They got into all kinds of shenanigans like shaving coins because they were actually made of valuable metal.
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Oct 25, 2017 01:41
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i wou;d\\l;dn't give a single talon to gently caress your mother, again 
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I don't get it either butOXBALLS DOT COM posted:people who support euphemisms like "sex work" because they want to reduce love and sex to a purely economic transaction This is like intel-level retarded.
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Oct 25, 2017 01:44
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if I get good service on my steak dinner ill tip two rabbits
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Ein cooler Typ posted:if I get good service on my steak dinner ill tip two rabbits suuuure you will, you said something similar around harvest time, i hope you drop short from a tall tower 
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Oct 25, 2017 02:13
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how many swords do you think it took to buy a magic (flying) carpet
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The Dregs posted:They got into all kinds of shenanigans like shaving coins because they were actually made of valuable metal. This is why modern coins have textured edges, btw, so that people can't clip the edge. I think it was Isaac Newton who invented this.
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Oct 25, 2017 15:25
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does anybody else really like that national treasury movie starring nicholas cage i do
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:IDGI Almost there, you left out the part about the INTERNATIONAL JOOOISH CONSPIRACY.
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Statutory Ape posted:how many swords do you think it took to buy a magic (flying) carpet one, if you hold it against the carpet dealer's throat
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morally adept posted:Almost there, you left out the part about the INTERNATIONAL JOOOISH CONSPIRACY. I can't wait for the part of the script where someone else calls you a shill.
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John_A_Tallon posted:I can't wait for the part of the script where someone else calls you a shill. Ok enough dunking on MAGA CHUDS. I'm currently laughing at the cost of a month of dancing lessons.
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Chief McHeath posted:I like dying by 45. The olde life expectancy numbers are skewed because of high child/infant mortality but if you lived to adulthood and weren't working in a mine or something you had a pretty good chance of living at least into your 50s or 60s
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here is a stone tablet with a bunch of prices from the roman empire. Diocletian posted:The prices for the sale of individual items which no one may exceed are listed below.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:01
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How much for the Merchant's daughter?
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Oct 25, 2017 18:05
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Beef cheaper than pork, what a time to be alive.
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I made bread once and it took a while so I'm going to suggest bread and gold were equal in worth. Maybe bread was a lil more valuable because you could eat it and not die from gold poisoning.
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Oct 25, 2017 18:10
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Lucky Guy posted:one, if you hold it against the carpet dealer's throat Daang tru
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gently caress this sewer cleaning racket, I'm gonna catch a loving pheasant
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Rutibex posted:here is a stone tablet with a bunch of prices from the roman empire. 
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DACK FAYDEN posted:the romans anticipated dead gay forums?! Neat. Wonder how much an account cost back then. I bet you could barter with Lowtax - maybe with a little Wine, Second Quality One Italian sextarius? I heard dude goes nuts for that poo poo. Two Free Toppings fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Oct 25, 2017 |
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In 2nd edition a two hander cost 25 gp and a blunderbus was 500. hth
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My dead gay empire
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Was just at a hotel with the bylaws posted on the door, but it was from about 100 years ago. It said something like if you entrust the innkeeper with the safekeeping of your horse, or carriage, or both, and they are hurt/damaged/stolen you are entitled to remuneration up to $40
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SniperWoreConverse posted:
one bit for each tooth was the going rate, I hear
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:IDGI i'm writing a whole thing on it, but the cliffnotes are 1. actually wealthy people don't know or care how much money they have. all their bank accounts, shares, etc, could all vanish but it wouldn't matter because their wealth is in one of the five really actually valuable forms: power, access, attention, reputation and novelty. their lifestyle wouldn't change a bit, and this fact is how you know if you are actually wealthy or not, the degree to how losing all your stuff would affect your life 2. tech makes people wealthier, generally. hobo today has better access to medicine (in non US world) than a king a hundred years ago, etc. 3. while money is pretty great at making supply/demand communication systems where lies are kind of impossible thereby preventing starvation, cf great leap forward, but tech makes faster even better communication systems that are far cheaper than money (see point 4), and once Logistics is solved supply and demand will matter waaaay less 4. money is too loving expensive. the financial sector is massive and contributes nothing to society in actual value. it just exploits informational gradients, which they call arbitrage, and optimising money out entirely would frees the world up like a half a billion man years of talent per year that can be used to solve actual problems and contribute actual value. chaosbreather fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Oct 26, 2017 |
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chaosbreather posted:i'm writing a whole thing on it, but the cliffnotes are Hello I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
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Lucky Guy posted:one, if you hold it against the carpet dealer's throat Mugging people who sell magic is a good way to get cursed. I don't know what sort of curses carpet-dealers have, but I wouldn't risk it, you could end up with a crippling Trampling Fetish.
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the cool thing was back in those days you could just join the navy and basically get drunk all day on your booze ration and you'd get like a pound of meat a day on top of it. that and any time you put into the port most captains would let the men basically load the ship with whores.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:the cool thing was back in those days you could just join the navy and basically get drunk all day on your booze ration and you'd get like a pound of meat a day on top of it. that and any time you put into the port most captains would let the men basically load the ship with whores. And the rest of the time you were trapped on a ship in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of burly sweaty men and also extremely high mortality rates
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Oct 26, 2017 03:40
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but if you sailed with lucky jack you could end up with a pocket full of guineas
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Mulaney Power Move posted:but if you sailed with lucky jack you could end up with a pocket full of guineas Sorry pay is in arrears right now. But you can sell your back pay to us at a ridiculously low rate in order to get the cash for some cheap rotgut to get sick with
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i'll take the rotgut and the whores mate
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Mulaney Power Move posted:i'll take the rotgut and the whores mate We're all out of whores right now. You can have a cabin boy for half th eprice
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OXBALLS DOT COM posted:We're all out of whores right now. You can have a cabin boy for half th eprice I think you mean double
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How much for a slave? Is it more or less than my iPhone
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Dreddout posted:How much for a slave? What sort of time frame are we talking here? It's the upkeep that really gets you, not the initial purchase That's why they ultimately switched to wage slavery - you have to feed and care for a slave, and you have to be careful to not overwork them to maximize their useful lifespan. A wage slave you can just squeeze mercilessly then throw them away when they break.
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Dreddout posted:How much for a slave? It depends on the when and where, but if we're sticking with the spirit of the thread then buying an 18th century slave would be comparable to buying a car today, roughly.
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