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Apropos of nothing, the word salary comes from the Latin for salt. The Romans used to pay their armies in it. It has use value and can be traded for other thi
by patio11 12y ago
Apropos of nothing, the word salary comes from the Latin for salt. The Romans used to pay their armies in it. It has use value and can be traded for other things that you want.
Would you accept your salary in salt in 2014? Well, that would be suboptimal. If you want salt, just take your salary in dollars and buy salt. If a company proposes to pay you in salt, run.
- baxter001 12y agoThere's no evidence this was ever true, the whole salary/salarius thing is basically an offhanded potential backronym mentioned by Pliny. It's particularly unlikely as 'payment' to the Roman fighting forces in the time he was referring to was almost exclusively in spoils.