Graeber / Wengrow 425: "By ignoring the unique history of every household, each individual, by reducing everything to numbers one provides a language of equity--but simultaneously ensures that there will always be some who fail to meet their quotas, and therefore that there will always be a supply of peons, pawns, or slaves"
a "system of equivalence run amok"--they go so far as to say that this is "[t]he first establishment of bureaucratic empires"
"how sovereignty manifests itself, in bureaucratic form"