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Re:Indian cows and buffaloes are going online by SilasX on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:26PM (#31169471)
> It is very common for a small family in village to own a couple of cows and a big portion of their wealth is the cattle.

Which is actually the historically typical case! (Since the agricultural revolution, anyway.) The word “capital” even traces its meaning to “head of cattle”:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capital#Etymology

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Re:Indian cows and buffaloes are going online by InitialLastName on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @12:52PM (#31169841)
There's a reason that most of the fines and taxes described in Leviticus are denominated in livestock.
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