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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:COVID-19 has left me unable to tell who in my office is being performatively hardworking and who is actually insane. At my last job we hired a guy who was leaving his job because they'd closed their office and gone fully remote. I sometimes wonder how he's been dealing with working from home the past 3 months.
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Moo the cow posted:So, doing the maths: not even close. modern manufacturing has done a number on the cost of durable goods. I don't know the timing exactly of either Attice or the pot, but annual wages for a legionnaire were 900 sestertii for a very long time (from Gaius Marius to Domitian). Pinned to E-3 wages, that's $26.67/sestertius. The pot is worth at least $2,250. Attice costs about a hundred bucks a go.
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Leon Trostky 2012 posted:COVID-19 has left me unable to tell who in my office is being performatively hardworking and who is actually insane. Handsome Wife posted:At my last job we hired a guy who was leaving his job because they'd closed their office and gone fully remote. I sometimes wonder how he's been dealing with working from home the past 3 months. My company is about 50-60% remote by default. Effectively all of the tech folks of any capacity are remote and then Sales/Marketing and about 2/3 of Senior Leadership are local to the office. The transition to remote has apparently been the hardest on Sales - I think they've just had a hard time being around no one all week. Marketing surprised me with how well they're doing - apparently they're considering staying remote mostly and looking into hiring non-local folks for marketing roles.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:not even close. modern manufacturing has done a number on the cost of durable goods. I don't know the timing exactly of either Attice or the pot, but annual wages for a legionnaire were 900 sestertii for a very long time (from Gaius Marius to Domitian). Pinned to E-3 wages, that's $26.67/sestertius. The pot is worth at least $2,250. Attice costs about a hundred bucks a go. That's why I like this place: I make a joke about cheap hookers and I get schooled on the economics of the Roman empire.
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Moo the cow posted:That's why I like this place: I make a joke about cheap hookers and I get schooled on the economics of the Roman empire. finally putting my degree to some manner of use
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Working from home is fine if you have a physically separate place to work from, like an office or extra bedroom or whatever. I loving hated it in my one bedroom apartment. So now I’m in the office everyday and my life is much better.
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Moo the cow posted:That's why I like this place: I make a joke about cheap hookers and I get schooled on the economics of the Roman empire. Seriously, SA is a treasure.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:finally putting my degree to some manner of use How's your latin? I'm using babelfish and online dictionaries and the best I can come up with is "Basium Vacuus Moneta: He dreams of horses as interest payments keep on piling up" 
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Guest2553 posted:How's your latin? I'm using babelfish and online dictionaries and the best I can come up with is "Basium Vacuus Moneta: He dreams of horses as interest payments keep on piling up" extremely bad, i'm a Greek guy really but my Greek also sucks now
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Moo the cow posted:Attice, you can do better than 4 sestertii. I think the copper pot guy was overcharging because he wanted justice, and I suspect Attice probably went home with a guy after a few drinks, so this was supposed to be a burn ("Why pay for a hooker, Attice only costs a couple beers"). quote:1393: On April 20th, I gave a cloak to be washed. On May 7th, a headband. On May 8th, two tunics. On May 11th I was charged for two tunics, two headbands, and two cloaks. I paid for two headbands, two tunics, and two cloaks in silence. But, I will not return to do business. Ancient Goons.
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quote:Should I sell my pokemon cards to pay off my debt ? quote:Pokemon card prices are literally higher than I've ever seen them ... and I'm sure its becausee of Covid .... since everybody was at home bored for a while, it makes sense ... quote:Pokemon cards are definitely on an upward value trajectory overall. That has to be taken into consideration. quote:I only have a few thousand left of credit debt. I'm still below 30% credit usage. quote:im literally going nuts because they HAVE been sitting in my closet since junior high lol. even when i collected, i never played with them!! 98% of my cards are still in mint condition quote:I want to make sure people value my emotional connection to them in the price. Where did OP's debt come from? Casinos and buying very expensive equipment to become a professional Youtube Beats producer (???) quote:How do i get into making beats? quote:If I started all over again, I'd probably say youtube + cracked version of FL is really all u need to actually practice and be on par with industry producers at the same time. quote:I invested a lot before realizing its all politics. quote:If your headphones cost less than 125. then you don't have headphones. quote:Aspiring music producer out of NYC. No memes. I ONLY post music and just started doing remixes. I'm really passionate about making this a career so any support is welcomed! What is OP planning in the near future? quote:atlantic city will be open by start of next month quote:This is so dissapointing. My feelings are literally hurt from this . I have a group of 45 and I host multiple games per week. quote:I play poker for the love of the game. Ideally I would make money. But how much Ive lost is irrelevant. If anything I need to play more after losing. quote:It's not bad. I lose probably 175 per week. quote:MODERATOR OF Bonus Content: quote:Pro Tip : If you really like a girl, just directly add her on IG and spit game in her DM's https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/heemr3/should_i_sell_my_pokemon_cards_to_pay_off_my_debt/ Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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I Shih-Tzu not, this is a real post. This son of a bitch has come up with the most far-fetched tax evasion scheme I've ever seen. Howl in the world does he think there is any pawsible way this could work? Even in places with the most liberal employment laws possible, like New Yorkie or Colliefornia, this will get exposed in any pawffice or re-tail setting. Even if you tried to be sneaky and make him a Branch Manager, Lab Assistant, or Head of Barketing. As rePugnent as this scheme is, it feels like a Maltease that he doesn't provide any more details about his plan. Furtunately, he's probably not really thinking about going through with it and this is just a hypothetical Mastiff waste of time. Furgive me. quote:Can a company legally hire a dog as an employee and put it on the payroll? quote:
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Historical bwm. Some somewhere in the 30s AD. Rome has fractional reserve banking. Banks take in savings and loan out some of them keeping a smaller amount of liquid capital to pay out savers who want some cash. Roman is a very unequal society and the senatorial class has mad wealth which they store in banks. Land prices in Italy are falling, far too low for the Emperors liking. Emperor Tiberius comes up with a great idea, mandate everyone of the senatorial class must own 15% (maybe 30%?) Of their wealth in Italian lands. Let's drive up the prices. Senators have an oh poo poo moment and go to cash out huge sums at the banks to buy this land. Worlds first bank run. Banks suddenly demand immediate payment in full of all outstanding debts. The normal people and business owners/smaller farmers are hosed. Only option is to sell off land. Firesale of Italian land. Land prices fall even lower. Economy in a liquidity crisis. Large parts of population destitute. Tiberius has to inject close to 10% of empires gdp into banks so they can lend again enforcing strict lending criteria. Worlds first quantitative easing. Nice to see we have to learn the same lessons over and over.
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Cast_No_Shadow posted:Historical bwm. Please continue
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tumblr hype man posted:Working from home is fine if you have a physically separate place to work from, like an office or extra bedroom or whatever. I loving hated it in my one bedroom apartment. So now I’m in the office everyday and my life is much better. I'm in a 550 square foot two-bedroom apartment with a roommate; the only real space for me to work from home is at my desk my personal PC is at, and in order to be able to work with anything remotely resembling efficiency, I've made it so my "commute" now is plugging my mouse and keyboard from my personal desktop to my work desktop (both are hooked up to my two monitors). I had a 20-minute walking commute to work back in the days when "going to work in an office" was a thing. I think anyone who wants to whose job doesn't absolutely require their physical presence should be able to work from home whenever the hell they want to, but it is definitely not for me. I very much miss the physical and psychological separation between work and personal life that went with going in to the office. Not to mention the free coffee, and additional exercise/time to gather thoughts in the morning.
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Do you have a source for this? I'm finishing up a book on the silk road which talks about trade, military expansion for resources, influencing or controlling the barbarians, and the indirect economic relationships between Rome and China. This book is nice because it's more on the scholarly side instead of pop science but not totally textbook dry. BWM content: Carved crystal cups The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes posted:At one famous feast Lucius Verus allowed his guests to keep the priceless crystal vessels in which their drinks had been served. These included ‘myrrhine goblets and cups of Alexandrine crystal’. The cost of this one banquet was reported to have been at least 6 million sesterces at a time when Rome was at war with the resurgent Parthian Empire. There's honestly some really scary accurate depictions of the rise of conspicuous consumption in a wealthy upper class grown separate from the rest of their society. threelemmings fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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I am loving this historical BWM kick we're on. It's always satisfying having it reinforced that humanity has remained fundamentally unchanged for millennia.
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threelemmings posted:but most of this sum had been spent on luxuries, including the consumption and display of expensive eastern products. Anime figurines., even in Rome? 
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Midjack posted:Anime figurines., even in Rome?
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If someone turns up a Roman complaint about someone’s spouse buying a bunch of small statues with no mouths I am going to die laughing.
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Historical BWM: American Politics Edition Thomas Jefferson quote:Visitors to Thomas Jefferson’s beautiful Virginia estate Monticello are often astounded that the designer and master of the plantation where he died in 1826 left this world penniless and heavily in debt. Shortly after Jefferson died both Monticello and his lesser-known but equally elegant estate named Poplar Forest were sold to help pay the debts of the former third President. Getting elected President to dodge your bill collectors: GWM. quote:Debt collections were temporarily halted against Jefferson when he became President, but the interest continued to accumulate. The White House had to divert creditors' letters from the White House mail room to Monticello during his presidency. - "Please help, my family is starving" - Spend less on wine. - "No." European wines were Jefferson's Funko Pops - invest your life savings, put them on the shelf, and then never take them out of their packaging. He also literally went into debt for decorative wall scrolls. Is Thomas Jefferson our Gooniest Founding Father? quote:Throughout his career as a diplomat in Europe, Jefferson developed a taste for the finer things in life, including expensive furnishings, books (then almost prohibitively expensive), wines and tapestries, and architectural adornments. All of these he acquired for display and use at his home, and nearly all were paid for on credit. The prime product of his plantations was tobacco, and throughout his life decreasing crop yields failed to meet annual expenses, let alone generate disposable income. Petitioning the government to establish a state-backed lottery to pay off your debts is a pretty ballsy move. quote:Shortly before his death Jefferson petitioned the Commonwealth of Virginia to allow him to conduct a lottery to raise funds to pay off some of his debts, which were in excess of $100,000 – over $2.25 million today. After his death Jefferson was buried at Monticello, defraying his final expenses, and his possessions, estates, and slaves were sent to public auction to help settle his debts. Despite the appearance of great wealth Jefferson left little to his heirs besides memories and crushing debts. I'm telling my children that they are getting the same inheritance as Thomas Jefferson's (white) children. Benedict Arnold quote:After betraying his country to the British in 1780, Benedict Arnold received a commission in the British Army, with a fair salary for his day, and a one-time payment of just over 6,300 British old pounds sterling, equivalent to about $1.1 million dollars in 2017 money. He also received an annual stipend to offset his lost American holdings totaling approximately $84,000 per year in 2017 money. quote:Arnold received a vastly larger sum than the Biblical 30 pieces of silver received by the traitor to whom Arnold was most frequently compared in America, and it should have been sufficient to set him up for the rest of his life in the British Empire which he served. It was not to be. Arnold would find a life of military frustration, business failures, imprisonment as a spy, and finally near destitution. Arnold picked the wrong people to ally with 4 times in 7 years. An impressive failure rate. quote:Arnold served with the British by leading several raids against his former countrymen, but he was generally ostracized socially by fellow British officers who were put off by his turncoat status. After the war he made several attempts to gain office with the prestigious East India Company, but his alignment with the political party soon out of power prevented his success. Horses and Gold Investment Scams: Destroying American finances since the dawn of the nation. Also, "Benedict Arnold: Beaver Farmer" quote:He tried several business ventures in Canada, leading him to become embroiled in lawsuits by partners who accused Arnold of cheating them, tacitly supported in the public mind by his reputation as a traitor. These included an incredibly costly attempt to breed horses and beavers, a shipping company that was never able to establish a dock or negotiate the right to deliver to any major harbors, and a speculative investment in a gold mining company. He also somehow managed to lose money by being a pirate and then almost lost his life. quote:During the French Revolution Arnold operated a privateer out of the port of Guadalupe, leading the French to imprison him as a British spy and he was only rescued from hanging by the timely arrival of a British fleet. And decided that "Infamous Traitor and Backstabber" was a good resume for someone looking to get endorsement deals and be seen as an honest spokesman. quote:By 1801, the broken Arnold was declining in health, and the old wounds of the revolution were troublesome. Nearly destitute as a result of failed businesses and multiple lawsuits, including suits over debts incurred in America by his wife prior to their marriage, Arnold found little to give him support in his adopted England. He hired a business manager and accountant to try and partner with local shipping companies to become a spokesman, but was never successful. quote:After settling most of his debts, the estate he left behind – for which he had betrayed his country – was small. His widow was forced to sell their home, its furnishings, and many of his and her own personal property to clear his debts. There was a public campaign to discourage public charity to his widow. Harsh. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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threelemmings posted:Do you have a source for this? I'm finishing up a book on the silk road which talks about trade, military expansion for resources, influencing or controlling the barbarians, and the indirect economic relationships between Rome and China. This book is nice because it's more on the scholarly side instead of pop science but not totally textbook dry. Can you name the book? Silk road is super interesting to me and I've also been thinking for a while that it would make an amazing setting for my D&D table.
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threelemmings posted:Do you have a source for this? I'm finishing up a book on the silk road which talks about trade, military expansion for resources, influencing or controlling the barbarians, and the indirect economic relationships between Rome and China. This book is nice because it's more on the scholarly side instead of pop science but not totally textbook dry. You can tell that it was a serious problem because of the presence of numerous sumptuary laws designed to curb conspicuous consumption. Of course since they weren't actually attacking any of the root causes of income inequality, none of it ever worked. Verus' feast would have paid for about a month of the wages of Roman soldiers in the Parthian war, which was absolutely massive.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Of course since they weren't actually attacking any of the root causes of income inequality, none of it ever worked. Were debt jubilees lobbies out of existence by then?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-pompeii-and-herculaneu I wish this one had the originals. I am wondering what word translated to "screw" because I had to imagine screws didn't exist per se... though now that I look them up, screw presses probably existed, so maybe it literally was screw.
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Guest2553 posted:Were debt jubilees lobbies out of existence by then? You talking about the biblical concept? Not a thing for Rome.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Can you name the book? Silk road is super interesting to me and I've also been thinking for a while that it would make an amazing setting for my D&D table. https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Empire-Silk-Routes-Ancient/dp/1473833744
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Soylent Pudding posted:Can you name the book? Silk road is super interesting to me and I've also been thinking for a while that it would make an amazing setting for my D&D table. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China By Raoul McLaughlin Covers China's expansion westward through barbarian country, dealings with nomadic horse people's and establishment of the Great Wall, sales of silk and steel westward with gold and precious metals going Eastward as a decision of purposeful economic control, their one failed attempt at direct diplomatic contact with Rome and the many intermediary cultures and peoples that moved goods across continents. For Rome covers their own expansions and the money spent on goods and funding the army, including failed expeditions like Parthia (which the author somewhat concludes the sale of steel arrowheads is what made their archers so much more dangerous than the Romans expected, in addition to Roman hubris and being out manouvered by light cavalry), and how goods from thousands of miles away became part of daily life. Also great for hammering home how dangerous both physically and economically it was to have caravans going through deserts, wastelands, and mountain passes, Afghanistan even then is something of a centerpiece due to terrain. There's a lot in the book, it's a dense read but it's all well delivered. threelemmings fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Just grabbed it, thanks!
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Hoodwinker posted:"Veni" alright. Yes, here I am. Edit: Upon further reflection, I do not wish to be associated with this.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Yes, here I am. I came, I saw, I'm a shark!
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tumblr hype man posted:Working from home is fine if you have a physically separate place to work from, like an office or extra bedroom or whatever. I loving hated it in my one bedroom apartment. So now I’m in the office everyday and my life is much better. I do lab work, but have managerial and project management responsibilities, so I can do about 75% of my work from home. I hate it. I have 2 small kids in a small 2 bedroom apartment. No office, and no space for a desk in a room that can be isolated from the kids. I basically do all of my work on my 15” laptop sitting on my bed. I miss the 36” widescreen display in the office. My employer will pay for a monitor setup, I just have no space. It’s also hard for me to turn off without a time I need to head out the door. I spent an extra hour and a half working tonight because I didn’t need to commute. I’ve never been more excited to go into the office when I have days I need to go in.
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EPICAC posted:I do lab work, but have managerial and project management responsibilities, so I can do about 75% of my work from home. I hate it. I have 2 small kids in a small 2 bedroom apartment. No office, and no space for a desk in a room that can be isolated from the kids. I basically do all of my work on my 15” laptop sitting on my bed. I miss the 36” widescreen display in the office. My employer will pay for a monitor setup, I just have no space. It’s also hard for me to turn off without a time I need to head out the door. I spent an extra hour and a half working tonight because I didn’t need to commute. I’ve never been more excited to go into the office when I have days I need to go in. Before your shift starts and after it ends take a 20 minute walk around the neighborhood. It helps separate work time from living time.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:not even close. modern manufacturing has done a number on the cost of durable goods. I don't know the timing exactly of either Attice or the pot, but annual wages for a legionnaire were 900 sestertii for a very long time (from Gaius Marius to Domitian). Pinned to E-3 wages, that's $26.67/sestertius. The pot is worth at least $2,250. Attice costs about a hundred bucks a go. Yeah, copper is drat near a precious metal.
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Quick question: if in the near future, I need to learn the price of negotiable affection in the Roman Empire or if I need to tell everyone that I saw the word 'horse' today, is there a Discord for BWM?
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Magnetic North posted:Quick question: if in the near future, I need to learn the price of negotiable affection in the Roman Empire or if I need to tell everyone that I saw the word 'horse' today, is there a Discord for BWM? All of these things are also relevant to my interests and I would also be interested in said dsicord.
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OH my god so many Fuckin Discord servers are about to happen. can we set up like a private SA reddit or someshit?
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tater_salad posted:OH my god so many Fuckin Discord servers are about to happen. can we set up like a private SA reddit or someshit? BWM thread onlyfans
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