[jonahbenton]

Should be the top comment. Accounting is everything. It is the physics of the economy.

There is a common fiction to money matters that everyone has to share- whether or not they know it- and the language in which that fiction is written is accounting.

[_curious_]

"There is a common fiction to money matters that everyone has to share- whether or not they know it- and the language in which that fiction is written is accounting."

Poetic.