• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Be a medieval peasant.

    Harvest comes in

    Load 1,000 pounds of produce onto a mule

    Mule dies

    Throw mule and produce on shoulders

    Walk to market

    Set up stall

    Sign: “Apples - 1 gold piece”

    Sell a single apple

    Am now the wealthiest man in town

    Go across the street to buy a wool tunic

    Attempt to make change

    Merchant cannot make change for a single gold piece

    So he kills me and becomes wealthiest man in town

    Repeat this for every shop in town

    Literally one guy left in village

    Mongols show up

    Take gold piece

    Return to China

    China countries to be the wealthiest country on Earth for another century