Comment on $37 for a burrito
thenextguy@lemmy.world 15 hours agoThat’s interesting because there was a recent episode of Rob Words where he shows that $ came from the original symbol for the peso. And that the dollar was essentially the same as the peso initially.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).