He swiftly razed his new 40,000 acquisition and erected a massive house, installed a giant pool, and threw in a commodious guesthouse that is, for real, bigger than the houses on either side of him.

After all, hundreds of years ago, even with coinage, commodies were traded for goods and services, it just to be a real hassel carrying that chicken around to trade with, even the gold got heavy and was hard to measure, so I'll stick with at least that much progress and use paper, at least of some kind.