According to Gresham’s law, people historically spent coins with the worst metal content first and stashed the best. This suggests that Ea-nāṣir’s shitty copper is still in circulation.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · edit-2 3 days ago

According to Gresham’s law, people historically spent coins with the worst metal content first and stashed the best. This suggests that Ea-nāṣir’s shitty copper is still in circulation.

Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 days ago

I find it strangely comforting that shitty copper merchant Ea-nāṣir touches our lives today from his own time, almost 4 millenia ago. Through his legend of shitty business practices, he lives on…

iocase@lemmy.zip · 4 days ago

Apparently I heard we only know of how shitty he is because someone probably burned his house down and he fled suddenly? It baked the bad reviews he kept in his house (lol) into something that could survive to today.