okay so this guy is from like 3,500 years ago right? almost all we know about this guy is that he was a merchant and some guy didn't like the copper that was sold from him. We don't have any other evidence of the story, just one complaint tablet. The only thing that remains of the legacy of Ea-Nasir is one complaint letter, and we know basically nothing else about the guy.

You ever work customer service? You ever have a customer write a complaint about you? Ever get written up at work? Imagine 4,000 years from now, millennia after you've otherwise been long forgotten, some archeologists find an old Yelp review saying that you did a bad job at sweeping the floors or whatever, and now for the end of time people the world over know you as "That asshole from 4,000 years ago who can't sweep a floor very well" and that is what your entire life is eternally remembered by

so I think maybe we should cut my man Ea-Nasir a bit more slack here. Maybe he wasn't as shifty of a fellow as we think we was

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[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

On the other hand, you had to do a lot of work to actually write stuff in clay tablets. He must've thought his complaint was worth the effort and/or expense

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The fact the tablet was fired and not just dried means it was deemed to be important enough for keeping. Probably because the issue was predicted to be long and hard to solve, and it's not that weird considering that copper trade was important.

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

Yeah this was a pretty large delivery if I recall, he was wholesale not retail.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Were there not shitposters and scam artists in the bronze age world?

[–] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean... some say Ea-Nasir was a scam artist...

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

There were dogs who couldn't see a thing