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Gold for House? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by n7gifmdn to c/politicalmemes

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It's all about the money supply. The devalued our money so workers think they were making more to avoid a communist revolution.

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[–] cygnus 4 points 1 year ago

For most of history prior to the 20th century, 10kg of gold would have bought you quite a fancy house. It would be about 140,000 roman Denarii, or roughly 120x the wage of a legionary.

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