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by tCfD 2744 days ago
The misguided belief that "if it can't be counted, it doesn't count" lies at the heart of all structural social conflicts. When complex reality is overcompressed into digestible, uniform units of account, whatever values fall outside the perception model is discounted to zero and lost.
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I see the same property at the heart of the theory of disruption.

Part of me thinks a safety first, collectively owned and organized coal mine would be a hell of a fun thing to try and create.