'Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the greatest cheat of them all?'

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If you were someone living around 9,000 BC, you would have carried livestock around in your "wallet" as proof that you were "loaded." Livestock then was literally and metaphorically "big bucks" – it was the ancient equivalent of a bank account, or what you're worth economically. "Big bucks" was the ... via PK