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There is no definite date, but I do love the circa 1750 BCE "oldest customer complaint," so please forgive me.
Wow, I never really thought about how long Ur has stood. The city was already 2000 years old in 1750 BCE
Shout-out to my man Ea-Nasir over at [email protected] !
Do you think Ea-Nasir would be ashamed that people over 3 millennia later are learning about how shitty his copper was, or would he be proud that people still speak his name?
That's a tough one! He clearly didn't care much about the reputation of his business, and in fact the only reason we know of him at all is that he saved the complaints he got! Most of us will have our names spoken for the last time when our children die; being remembered at all beyond, say, 100 years after your death is a heck of an accomplishment.
I dunno, we're just assuming he kept them for the sick pleasure of it. Maybe he was collecting evidence before he lodged a formal complaint with his material supplier?
Or he could have had an excellent product and kept the complaints in the same way people nowadays with excellent products show off the idiot one star reviews.
That's a possibility!
And people say there's no niche communities on Lemmy.
It's low-volume, but one of my favorites.
Low volume and high quality, unlike ea nasir's copper
Bazinga!
Fuck Ea-Nasir. All my homies hate Ea-Nasir
How can we know there weren't earlier consumer complaints that didn't survive tho?
Yeah, that's just the earliest known written complaint. And since the city was already two thousand years old at the time, the odds of there having been more are very high.