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Money
MAN: It worked very well at first.
WOMAN: What did
MAN: The market.
WOMAN: A bit too well if you ask me.
MAN: Right. I will ask you. What do you mean the marked worked “too well”
WOMAN: Well, look what happened to the Fishers!
MAN: What did happen to the Fishers
WOMAN: You remember their catches
MAN: Oh, of course I do. They catch salmon one night, perch the next, all lovely and fresh… two lots
of wonderful fish on offer on their stall at the same time.
WOMAN: True, and what did they exchange their salmon for
MAN: Ah. They did very well out of that. For each load of salmon they were guaranteed to get a dozen
eggs, twelve bags of corn and a leg of lamb.
WOMAN: Yeah, and what did they get for each load of perch
MAN: Well, they didn’t do as well from that, did they Maybe only half a dozen eggs, three bags of
corn and a couple of chops if they were lucky.
WOMAN: Yeah...but they’d spent the same amount of time fishing for the salmon, as they had for the
perch.
MAN: True, but most people prefer salmon to perch any day. And you can understand why. It was the
same with the turnips and the carrots.
WOMAN: Oh…Mrs. Farmer you mean
MAN: Yes.
WOMAN: She soon found that Mrs. Shepherd would only give her a leg of lamb for turnips.
MAN: But for a load of carrots she could get a leg of lamb, a couple of chops and a skein of wool.
What’s more, Mrs. Farmer didn’t have to work any harder to grow carrots rather than turnips.
WOMAN: It’s weird, isn’t it
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