Hair has been growing since the caveman days. Today we strive to look our best for mating or business purposes and therefore see value in the service of cutting hair. Surely there were transactions in ancient egyptian times for such services as well. We have evidence of hair care from that era. For thousands of years humans have paid someone something of monetary value to shorten the length of the hair on their heads.

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