BF>> A l milk cost about $1 here.

 SH> Not far off that here.

That's good as comparison.

 SH> How long does it take to transform a command-driven economy into the mixed
 SH> economy we benefit from?  Longer than we think, I suspect.

Longer then one year that the 12 different governments had anyway. I will say at
least one generation.

 SH> You probably spelled it with two "BBs". :-)  As for
"slaughter", it is

Yes I did and it was how you had spelled it.

 SH> directly traceable to the Old Norse "slahtr".  The
English borrow words
 SH> from everywhere.

In Swedish it's slakt.

//Bj”rn

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