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It's funny, because the kind of rip-offs you mention in your first paragraph seem to have been around for as long as trade existed. See for proof this 3,700-yea
by AceJohnny2 12y ago
It's funny, because the kind of rip-offs you mention in your first paragraph seem to have been around for as long as trade existed. See for proof this 3,700-year-old sumerian clay tablet:
http://lauravaleri.com/2015/02/27/sumero-babylonians-invent-customer-service/ http://lauravaleri.com/2015/02/27/sumero-babylonians-invent-...
- TeMPOraL 12y agoYeah, I remember seeing it posted on HN. I wonder what methods they had back then to keep fraud in check, and how effective they were compared to ours, from the point of view of an average citizen. Still, I think that our complex technological civilization needs a higher base level of trust for it to work than the civilization of Sumer, because we depend on it much more than ever in history.