malte on Nostr: Humans can calculate. We have many examples where humans turn value judgements into ...

Humans can calculate. We have many examples where humans turn value judgements into situations of pure calculation. I'm finishing up a translation of a book by David Graeber on the history of Debt right now and it is filled with stories about humans reducing complex situations involving value judgments to something more like cold mathematical calculation. The very existence of debt and money is one case in point.