Bathhouses. The local Quicklee's just doesn't do it.
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Doug Rushkoff had a talk where he called out local currency as a thing heβd like to bring back from the medieval.
Exclusive to the community, and only valid for a short period of time, so you canβt hoard it or siphon the wealth to another community.
Edit:
Found a blog post about it: https://archive.rushkoff.com/articles/local-money.html
It doesn't say anything about it being temporary, although he does mention that in his talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRWzOdUiqQE
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Dragons
The commons
I could be down for small beer being the main thing we drink.
Trebuchets, which btw are far superior to catapults.
I recently got into armored combat so, knights. If we're gonna kill each other, let's at least be civilized!
Oh oh oh oh oh oh!
JOUSTING!
We can do it with motorcycles this time instead of horses!
OH ALSO
Private Military contractors should begin to dress like crosses between clowns and noble-knights again.
(hours later addendum) Bowing as a form of social greeting. We REALLY missed a beat when we didn't bring this back when COVID made people afraid of getting too close to each other.
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Moats. I was kidding at first, but I'm now thinking lazy rivers are modern moats.
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Child labor.
Oh, waitβ¦
Grand journeys to far off lands. The kind of journey where someone who is "exotic" and personable can make a life for themselves by being the court foreigner.
Also: Judicial duels. They are unjust, unethical, and unproductive, but damn if I don't want to see white collar criminals have to fight the selected champion of all the folks they ripped off. Of course, being a billionaire would probably buy you a pretty good champion yourself, so we'd also have to bring back old concepts of honor to compel them to represent themselves.
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A blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
Guillotines