From a Jeweler/Gemologist's point of view, I often wondered about the world's oldest profession... & how it couldn't be prostitution. Since some form of payment had to be made first (probably in the form of a seashell or pebble). Some caveman had something shiny that someone else wanted. So the oldest profession must have been being a jeweler... fast forward several thousands of years & bingo, a diamond, which won't keep you warm when it's cold, won't keep the rain off of you & with the invention of synthetic abrasives, is realistically almost totally useless, but still commands a hefty price tag. Now that's ludicrous. Think of the guys in those hellish mines working for peanuts. Don't even get me started on how humans working for minimum wage amounts to nothing less than indentured servitude/slavery... but I digress. Society is screwed up, yet somehow it works (for now).
The price on that music magazine reminds me of an old vaudeville joke that Red Skelton revived. There was a guy selling apples from a cart, during the depression. Shouting, "Apples! Ten thousand dollars". His friend said, "Apples for Ten thousand dollars? Are you crazy"? ...& the vendor said, "I only have to sell one".
The magazine originally started at $50,000 & he's down to $33,000. That's like dropping the price on that apple to $6,600...
society isn't the only thing screwed up!
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