2/...sorted out that simplistic argument IIRC in Making Money, the sequel to Going Postal.
An excellent book.
Money, as no doubt The #patrician the effective ruler of Ankh Morpork, understood isn't (just) a thing, and it's use is not to be exchanged, but to assist exchange of what is desired.
People who don't understand that do badly at business and worse at large-scale economics.
“Patrician Bride”
When a pleb has patrician tastes
#bigboobs #bigbreasts #boobs #breasts #caption #chastity #cleavage #chastitycage #chastitydevice #chastitycaption #chastityslave #patrician #noblewoman #noblelady #pleb #alpha #marriage #engagement #dickgirl #feminization #forcedfeminization #feminizationcaption #forcedfem #forcedfeminizationcaptions #gendertransformation #genderchange #transgender #feminizationtransformation #skirtlift #skirtlifting
“History is the grave-yard of Aristocracy.”
#CirculationOfElites #elites #masses #plebeian #patrician #aristocracy #history
=== “Changes of regime, revolutions, and so on occur not when rulers are overthrown from below, but when one elite replaces another. The role of ordinary people in such transformation is not that of initiators or principal actors, but as followers and supporters of one elite or another.
The #Vestals
Young women from #Patrician-only families (later expanded to #Plebian families) were chosen to serve as Vestals. They had to remain celibate for 30 years, but after their service, were free to marry. Unlike most Roman women, they “were free to own property, make a will, and #vote.”
They were given the responsibility of maintaining #Vesta’s #SacredFire, “collecting water from a #SacredSpring, preparation of food used in rituals and caring for sacred objects in the temple's sanctuary.”
They made a special flour, “mola salsa,” that was “sprinkled on all public offerings” to the gods. They were also in charge of the safekeeping of wills and testaments of prominent people, such as Casear and
Marc Antony (Connelly, 219).
#VestalVirgins #RomanPriestesses #RomanWomen #History #RomanHistory #AncientHistory #Histodon #Autonomy #WomensRights #WomenVoting
Tories never change. It’s only ever one rule for them and another for the rest of us. They think they’re naturally better than us and do us all a favour by governing the idle, unproductive rabble that comprise the British public. #patrician #elitist #entitled #tory #GTTO
Police looking into Sunak’s failure to wear a seatbelt https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/19/sunak-apologises-for-failing-to-wear-seatbelt-while-filming-in-car?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
a fading echo
Marfisa
Coach Pāṇini ®
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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈
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