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Why lawns began as a display of wealth

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Instead of sensibly growing edible crops, rich estate owners grew perfectly flat green grass just to visually loudly declare they had so much extreme cash they did not need to farm. Now suburbanites throw endless cash at weedkillers just to weakly mimic them.

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