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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoYou would think by now, Ferengi would have sold food chewers. I mean they have replicators!
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-22 months agoAutomatic food chewers? And who is going to add the spit? You? no thank you to your cephalopod goo, good sir. And if you suggest replicated spit I will form a corporation to do a hostile takeover of your commerce sector.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoThat’s an explanation I’ve seen for why the Romans didn’t find labor-saving devices like Heron’s steam engine to be important. Why should you use a steam engine when you have plenty of slaves?
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months ago Ferengi would have sold food chewers. Their society got past slavery much quicker than humanity
minus-squareNegativeNull@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoIf they can sell Tooth Sharpeners for Latinum, surely you are right and they can make mad profits with food chewers
You would think by now, Ferengi would have sold food chewers. I mean they have replicators!
Automatic food chewers? And who is going to add the spit? You? no thank you to your cephalopod goo, good sir.
And if you suggest replicated spit I will form a corporation to do a hostile takeover of your commerce sector.
That’s an explanation I’ve seen for why the Romans didn’t find labor-saving devices like Heron’s steam engine to be important. Why should you use a steam engine when you have plenty of slaves?
Their society got past slavery much quicker than humanity
If they can sell Tooth Sharpeners for Latinum, surely you are right and they can make mad profits with food chewers