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Bad Intentions Don’t Make Money and Honesty Doesn’t Lose Money

In ancient China, business scales used a unit of weight called a catty (approximately 600 grams). One catty was equivalent to 16 taels, the standard money across all businesses. This story happened during that time.  There were two rice stores on the southern street of a county in China — one was named Yongchang, and ...

Tatiana Denning

Chinese scales.