It was a wingnut-free period, for which, apparently, I should be grateful.
Before I dive back in to the crazy, let me note this passage from a recent New Yorker piece on pirates, in which it is observed that captains
allocated set-asides for professionals (two hundred pesos for each surgeon, a hundred for each carpenter), incentive payments (fifty to anyone who captured a Spanish flag, five to anyone who threw a grenade into a fort), and compensations for injury (a hundred for a lost eye, fifteen hundred for two legs).
Yeah, pirates had health care. Communists!
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