[ExI] good news for libertarians

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2021-4-24 06:58, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:
> Men have always paid for companionship - think history:  dowries.

A dowry is paid by the bride's family.  (In what fiction did I find the 
curse, "May you have many ugly daughters!" ?)  In India, anecdote says 
inadequate dowry is a common motive for uxoricide.

But some cultures do have payments the other way.
An interesting detail in (iirc) Graeber's book «Debt»: some cultures 
have money-like tokens that are used *only* for bride-price or wergild 
or the like, never for everyday commerce, because human life cannot be 
measured in ordinary goods.

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