Nominative predeterminism?

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  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I mean, it’s their names.

    In 1869, Goldman Sachs was founded by Marcus Goldman in New York City in a one-room basement office next to a coal chute. In 1882, Goldman’s son-in-law Samuel Sachs joined the firm.

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      4 days ago

      That doesn’t really make it any less crazy.

      Imagine working at a smithy called Smiths run by Joe Smith, who is a Smith. That’s at least as wild.
      It’s so on the nose that if you read it in a book you’d roll your eyes and call it lazy writing

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        That’s actually the origin of several last names like Smith. Carpenter, Miller, Cooper, waller, Fisher, Chandler, Carter, black, and barker are believed to have originated from professions.

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          I’m aware, that’s pretty common knowledge.

          I’ma write a book about someone who works for a tailor named Taylor Tailor at their tailor shop called Tailor’s Tailoring which is run out of a trailer. It’ll be tailor Taylor Tailer’s Tailor’s Tailoring tailoring trailer. It will be a very serious book, because none of this is in the least but funny.