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The Market
WOMAN: You know I can’t believe it sometimes!
MAN: It didn’t come easy. It took a lot of hard work!
WOMAN: Mmm…it certainly did!
MAN: The idea of each family in a community producing something different, dividing up the labor,
mechanizing – that’s what made the difference.
WOMAN: We make really wonderful clothes now.
MAN: Oh, yeah.
WOMAN: We’ve got a right to be proud.
MAN: And the Farmers produce terrific wheat and barley!
WOMAN: The Cowherds are turning out the best beef and cream I’ve ever tasted!
MAN: Pity about the Shepherds.
WOMAN: I’m getting a bit fed up with the Shepherds.
MAN: Though you’ve got to admit their mutton is better than anything we could produce, dear.
WOMAN: When we manage to get any of it.
MAN: Anyway, don’t forget the Fishers. That trout of theirs yesterday…oh! And our idea of putting
everything we all produced into common stores, so that every family could take what it needs, works
really well… well, up to a point, anyway.
WOMAN: We’d have had salmon yesterday- if the Shepherds hadn’t gotten to the barn first. We had to
have the Fisher’s trout instead. Still, it was better than anything we could have caught.
MAN: Better food isn’t the only advantage, you know.
WOMAN: That’s true enough. There’s more food for everybody now. After all, when you spend all
your time at your one job, you become more skilled at it.
MAN: Our looms are the most efficient this valley has ever seen.
WOMAN: We get ten times the amount of cloth from this beauty, and it doesn’t take any more effort,
either. You’ve got to admire the Fishers, though.
MAN: Yes, that boat they made to get down the stream to fish in the lake – brilliant idea!
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