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Sorry ur wife died or whatever, can you send me 50 bucks?
Dear Fred, please send me 25 bucks, I have received a credible tip on a new alt-coin that Lafargue has invested in.
It honestly seems insane to me that £3 then equals £418 now. But apparently the farthing was 1/960 of a pound so it’s not like they were too limited on dividing it. I guess it’s easier to think of the penny (or maybe the shilling?) as their “base unit” the same we way might consider the pound or dollar as the base.
But then I look at US inflation (where by that point the penny was the lowest denomination) and it looks $3 then is about $65 today so there’s a huge gap there. I can’t find what the exchange rate was at the time though.
Oh god I finally understand the name penny farthing
The UK government deliberately devalued the pound a couple of times, we had the great depression significantly devalue the pound, and the 70s&80s were sustained periods of high inflation.
But then I look at US inflation
Bretton-Woods and some shenanigans with the UKs war debt devalued it significantly against the dollar multiple times.
Rent is expensive
i mean if i was the son of some rich industrialist i would pay my friend’s rent too tbh, but i wonder if the terse writing is just how they wrote or if it is karl marx hiding feelings of inadequacy or something, its hard to ask others for money even if you know they would give it, especially for a cis man in a very patriarchal time. especially hard to ask outside of the immediate family as well. it might have been weirder for engels if marx opened with some kind of softener line or sob story right? idk how their relationship was though. dudes are weird sometimes.
I can imagine writing like that if invited to do so. If he doesn’t want to hear a sob story because he’s busy or indifferent, then cutting to the chase makes it easier to read. It could be indicative of feelings of inadequacy, but I wouldn’t conclude that based on a bare bones note.
i wonder if the terse writing is just how they wrote or if it is karl marx hiding feelings of inadequacy or something
I little bit of Column A and Column B
I love it when reactionaries think it’s a big own to dunk on Marx. Like commies don’t do it too.
Three pounds for the gas bill
lmao imagine receiving a letter signed “yours, K. M.” from Karl Marx because he was just a guy back then
The Marx household was the original punk house.
*our rent
