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{{quote|I began to see legibility as a central problem in statecraft. The premodern state was, in many crucial respects, partially blind; it knew precious little about its subjects, their wealth, their land-holdings and yields, their location, their very identity. It lacked anything like a detailed “map” of its terrain and its people. It lacked, for the most part, a measure, a metric, that would allow it to “translate” what it knew into a common standard necessary for a synoptic view. As a result, its interventions were often crude and self-defeating. | {{quote|I began to see legibility as a central problem in statecraft. The premodern state was, in many crucial respects, partially blind; it knew precious little about its subjects, their wealth, their land-holdings and yields, their location, their very identity. It lacked anything like a detailed “map” of its terrain and its people. It lacked, for the most part, a measure, a metric, that would allow it to “translate” what it knew into a common standard necessary for a synoptic view. As a result, its interventions were often crude and self-defeating. | ||
:—{{author|James C. Scott}}, {{br|Seeing Like a State}}}} | :—{{author|James C. Scott}}, {{br|Seeing Like a State}}}} | ||
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Scott’s idea of the “illegible relationships” between people in an economy resonates with {{author|David Graeber}}’s idea<ref>{{br|Debt: The First 5,000 Years}}.</ref> of “everyday communism” — a basic social glue without which rationalist economic transactions could hardly take place, and {{author|Joe Norman}}’s observation that the [[informal]] interactions in a [[system]] are what account for 80% of its effectiveness. | Scott’s idea of the “illegible relationships” between people in an economy resonates with {{author|David Graeber}}’s idea<ref>{{br|Debt: The First 5,000 Years}}.</ref> of “everyday communism” — a basic social glue without which rationalist economic transactions could hardly take place, and {{author|Joe Norman}}’s observation that the [[informal]] interactions in a [[system]] are what account for 80% of its effectiveness. | ||
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Is this the origin of the confusion with productivity with business, and facetime as a substitute for value. By definition I can see who is in the office late, and early. | |||
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*[[Deep dive]] | *[[Deep dive]] | ||