When it came time to balance the national budget, we'd have boxes the length of the main street and civil servants counting the stones and putting them into bags. We'd calculate rates of hemispheric global rotation for rice farmers digitally on our fingers. Took every person we knew plus their toes to keep track of the numbers in the rainy season. Try telling that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you. No they won't.
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