• Boomer Humor Doomergod
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    52 months ago

    The strict dress code for women came about because debt collectors would show up to farms in the Fertile Crescent to demand payment on a loan, and decide to take their daughters as payment. (Drunkenly-remembered source: Graeber, “Debt: The First 5,000 Years.”)

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      22 months ago

      This is accurate.

      Source: I once bought a wife from a man in the Fertile Crescent in exchange for a shipment of low quality copper.