I see you studied your Comparitive Economics of Historic Treachery.
Building on this, it’s true that the current value of that amount of silver is probably only a few hundred dollars, but at the time, it may have been months worth of salary for a laborer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver#Identity_of_the_coins
I reported the bigots, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a better world.
Sorry to reuse my comment, but it seems to fit here.
Also, wouldn’t this actually be deflation in the value of silver and / or inflation of the value of labor relative to it?
I reported the bigots, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a better world.
No, you’re sincere. We need more of that.
This is correct. I was just trying to be ironic. Sorry if I baited anyone.
Thanks for being kind to me and assuming the best. As it is, I was doing an ironic shtick in the same vein.
Hmm? I’m not familiar with that term. He just left me this bat with his friends’ signatures on it, and a few religious symbols. It’s pretty stained, but it’s got a lot of sentimental value. He didn’t say much except that he used it to teach Nazis a lesson by beating them…at the game of baseball. Always that pause near the end as grandma gave him a sharp look. She must have not wanted me to hear about his baseball stories.
“Hey, babe! New Hitler Youth merch just dropped!”
“They’re labeling themselves?”
“Yeah! They got race-supremecy friends and everything!”
“Let me grab my grampa’s bat. He beat so many Nazis with this…at the game of baseball of course.”
“Of course.”
[Beat on the Brat by The Ramones plays in the background]
“Do my job for me?”
“No.”
Thank you for your sacrifice.