• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I just read War and Peace for the first time last year. There’s a section in the book involving hunting with borzois, and the narrator mentions that one of the characters paid a family of serfs for his best dog. He didn’t pay money to a serf family - the cost of the dog was a serf family. Imagine that sort of bullshit if you’re a serf.

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      4 months ago

      Sounds right. There’s that British family that was caught underpaying their staff do much, they spent more on their dog

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      4 months ago

      if i’m going to be sold for anything, a dog is probably the only option that wouldn’t make me feel miserable

      so long as they take care of the good boy