[lbo-talk] demotic cuisine

[Chris Doss]

Er, there was plenty to buy in the ancient world, like expensive bronze stuff, nice clothes, jewelry, and spices and good food. Automation makes things CHEAPER. And the unit of exchange was the ox.

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From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
, there were no flour mills,
there was no refrigeration, no va uum cleaners, no textile mills, AND NO
MOENY. So what was the use of bing rich if there was nothing available
to buy with the money one didn't have anyway.