the.com/tooth fairy
Capitalism's first pitch to your kid, paid in cash per incisor.
means A mythical figure who swaps a child's lost baby tooth for money while they sleep.
from The fairy herself is a 20th-century American invention, first showing up in print in the early 1900s — a mashup of older European tooth-disposal customs (burying or burning baby teeth, sometimes with a rhyme, to protect the child or keep the tooth from witches) with the Anglo-American love of gift-bearing nighttime visitors, Santa Claus style. Before she existed, many cultures just had a mouse or rat take the tooth instead — no cash involved, just rodent dental work.
- going rate
- averages around five dollars per tooth in the us
- origin
- evolved from european mouse-and-tooth folklore, not fairies
- economics tell
- payouts track local housing prices, oddly enough
- job description
- nocturnal bone collector with surprisingly generous benefits