• Tangent5280@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Oh, to be a seamstress, stitching clothes for the farmer’s infant son in exchange for a sack of wheat and 6 ounces of butter

        • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          11
          ·
          1 year ago

          The current infant-clothes to steak exchange rate is unfavorable. It would be wiser to hold off till the late autumn, when steak futures usually fall and clothing values skyrocket.

      • solstice@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah let’s all go back to subsistence agriculture! Every time my mind wanders and I find myself romanticizing an age of simpler times and communal living I remind myself of the realities of that sort of lifestyle.