Kind of a dumb take.
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This might be the funniest tweet in history
Like, seriously my friend and I at 15/16 went out get a FF job, I went to McDs because the pants were gray, the shirt white with gray stripes....BK (where he worked) was a variation of ass brown colors in small checks shirt with brown corduroy pants....horrible!
So... You were lovin' it and they were having it their way.
I'd be wary about learning history from a professional gold bug.
Somehow, all the civil wars, popular unrest, and separatist movements aren't even mentioned. And Spain did learn a lesson about that "less gold and silver entering Rome is the real problem" thing a thousand years later.
Whatever this humor is, it hit me like a snipers bullet. Lmfao.
Reminds me of....
In the 80s McDonald's both didn't pay minimum wage and required employees to purchase uniforms from the company.
Companies can still require employees to purchase uniforms in the US as long as the deduction for the uniform doesn't reduce their wages below the pittance that federal minimum wage is.
I worked at McDonald's in high school in 1983. Neither of those happened where I was, I made $3.35/hr and was given a uniform (polyester, bleh!) that I had to return in good condition when I left.
Of course my experience doesn't mean it never happened, it just wasn't overall what you described.
1987 here, I think. Started at c$3.65 , but minimums moved to $3.80 the next week and so did I.
Red poly tie, red striped button-down poly shirt, black heavy cotton-poly pants. The company supplied them, but I had to replace any pieces I wrecked.
People bitched about the button shirt vs a sloppy pullover jersey, but it was easier to clean. Ultimately I saw a preference for the dumb button-downs.
We were still in brown and yellow and there was no cotton. That uniform was hot and scratchy and reeked of fry oil no matter how often you washed it. The women's uniform was similar to https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/tb221c-1983-mcdonalds-uniforms-4138233506. They're calling it burgundy but it was brown. Pure 70s brown. Yuk.
The first check I got from my first job was for $0.00 because I hadn't worked enough to pay off my uniform. I still have it framed. I was also being paid a sub-minimum training-period wage. America's labor laws are fucked.
Less strict uniforms for jobs that don't require them is good actually is my take.
In Star Trek they wore pajamas
Or slinky catsuits. I bet they’re comfy, if perhaps stinky with the polyester/elastane combo. I remember reading that the TNG outfits were not at all comfortable, but that was 1980s tech. We have lululemon now.
Oh boy, one of my favorite hyperfixations, Roman coin debasement & inflation! TLDR: the parallels of today and back then are much more than just similar. We're essentially repeating what happened in the fourth century but on a global scale.
My special interest is what happened similarly with silver dirhams in the late Viking Age. You can see the silver got increasingly less pure from the source (Middle East) which reverberated into Scandinavia and early fortified towns. I reposted this recently in !archaeology@mander.xyz, but this is from one of my old lecturers and it gives an overview of the relationships between Scandinavia and the Middle East during this time which is not well understood by the general public: https://aeon.co/essays/the-viking-age-is-undergoing-a-revisionist-transformation
Imagine a sci-fi world, far in the future, where there are enough old unearthed pennies to be used as currency, but they are scarce enough to acquire great relative value.
"Hey, that must have cost a small fortune!"
"A hundred and twenty five pennies, to be exact."
"Damn!"
Seeing as the US mint is planning to discontinue pennies and the general outlook on the future of the world, that could be not that far off.