This little blip that late stage Capitalism where mass hysteria and panic buying has led to limited stocks is the same indictment that socialism faces from those who sing Capitalism's praises and often claim it is faultless.
If you don't like people hoarding sanitizer during a pandemic, wait until you hear about the Mongolian siege of Baghdad in 1258.
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Those of us with european ancestry have much to thank the Mongols for. My great-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-etc.-grandpa probably would have been a failure with no descendants if he hadn't "inherited" that sausage shop or whatever from his dead coworkers
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Not to mention Mongol unification of the Silk Road led directly to the Black Plague which then gave us the Renaissance and the modern world.
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Can you elaborate? Read the wikipedia article but can't put it into context or what it has to do with people hording stuff
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that was a bad week ngl
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Booze will work, if it's strong enough. They can place your bones in 'a bottle of alcohol'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NQoYjTdUdg …
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Is that the one where they catapulted pestilent bodies into the city or the one where they killed everyone in the city because they refused to surrender when they asked nicely?
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Wasn't jerusalem saved by a plague at one point? My memory's hazy...which is really inconvenient for a historian. - Seb
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