Oddbean new post about login | logout Hard money was mentioned, in the only form it was available in at the time. This should be the take away.
This is the flipside of religion. Advanced cultures wrote all these ideas down prescriptively which means there will always be zealots who want to follow the original texts. It’s how you end up with the Amish, or Jews tricking their way through Sabbath - a desire for piety in a world unrecognisable to when their holy books were written.