Everyone wants to write a book? in 2000 BCE? gonna need a citation on this one

“This tablet is of a type used by the Assyrian merchants to track the income and expenses generated by caravan shipments. The cuneiform text, read from left to right, records not only the amount of silver invested in tin and textiles, but also the less commonly traded precious stone lapis lazuli, which was sourced from Afghanistan. In addition to investments in trade items, these shipments required various expenditures like clothing and wages for guides, as well as donkeys and their equipment and fodder. Donkeys became important trade items themselves and were often sold upon the caravan’s arrival in Anatolia after the arduous 6-8 week journey from Ashur. The tablet also records other fees, payments, and purchases, before calculating the total money owed to the prominent merchant Imdi-ilum who was active in the caravan trade between 1888 and 1876 B.C. Interestingly, the final balance recorded in the tablet, 1 mina and 50 shekels of silver, is slightly more than the actual total calculated from the figures provided (1 mina, 48 5/6 shekels). Such minor discrepancies are common in the Old Assyrian texts and several erasures on the text indicate the care with which the account was made.”

-The Met

Also this thing is from like the 19th cent. Which makes sense - 2800 BCE don’t bruh

I love ancient “kids these days”. They make me feel better about kids these days.

To be fair, it was only a couple millenia later that they were conquered by the Babylonians, so he had a point.

Hey… I wanna write a book!
jk, lol, I just wanna write a comment on Lemmy.

Now substitute “every man wants to write a book” with
Every man wants to post cat pictures
Every man wants to write a twitter rant
Every man wants to film a tiktok challenge

Make Assyria Great Again

Same as it ever was

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Time is relative. If the end is coming in 5000 years it will be only a moment in a universe which is billions of years old.

Just because people complained about something in the past doesn’t mean it’s not a problem.

That said, alt-right types who want to get all “woe is me” “society has degenerated” are pathetic. They’re just as addicted to helplessness and being a victim as the “woke” progressives they bully. Just touch grass and move to a conservative place. They also can’t do that because they don’t want to submit themselves to God and so they can’t live with religious conservatives.