The Importance of Violence in the Human Economy

Human economies are systems of exchange in which qualities are reduced to quantities, allowing calculations of gain and loss. This is why i think rospabe was right to emphasize the fact that in such economies, money can never substitute for a person. Money is a way of acknowledging that very fact, that the debt cannot be paid. But even the notion that a person can substitute for a persons is by no means self evident. How does it become possible to treat people as if they are identical? The lalay example gave us a hint. It takes an enormous amount of sustained and systematic violence to rip her so completely from her context that she becomes a slave. To make her equivalent to a bar