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Another meme from Reddit saved to my phone

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[–] exbot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] peril33@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The hobbit: The desolation of smug

[–] Attaxalotl@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

Lawful Evil

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really be like this tho.

On that note, was there such a method of tithe evasion back in the feudal era?

[–] KurtDunniehue@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Modern capitalism as we know it began forming in the Renaissance, particularly in colonial European powers who were getting to the Colonization of the rest of the world game earlier than their peers. This notably includes Portugal and the Netherlands, followed swiftly by most everyone else.

There were promissory notes that were carried by travelers prior to this, in the form of Crusaders traveling from Europe to Jerusalem, in the relatively brief period of time that it was conquered. But this did not interact with market economies as we'd know it, and is directly analogous to traveler cheques, meant to make you less of an appealing robbery target on the road.

No, these kinds of shenanigans were concocted rather recently, and are not reflective of baseline normal human behavior. It's mostly a system that was created by accident, with conventions that were forming being purposeful altered during creation by the people with money, for their own benefit.

[–] Thebazilly@pathfinder.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read an article the other day that calculated Smaug's net worth as $62 billion (although it is ten years old now). So technically, Smaug is sitting on 1.5 Twitters.

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

This is genius.

[–] LouLimes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lol this is a great idea

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the while literally sitting on a pile of gold

[–] TheLittlePeace@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look closer, it's squares. They're all proof of stock.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Magnificent

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