“We calculate. Through measuring whether we have added more of various sorts of

—“We calculate. Through measuring whether we have added more of various sorts of capital to kin+kith than we have consumed from them, and whether that capital we have consumed was consumed via transactions which are productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of negative externality, especially from the moment we become conscious that personal adherence to this is a means by which to gauge our demonstrated and continually warrantied value relative to the value of others/competitors in a given investment pool.

One way I do this is by incrementally reporting everything I’ve ever said and done to people in my trust, while protecting the privacy of people with whom I’ve been involved in various things, especially if they imposed no costs/privacy is a means to avoid gossip. Transparency is a means of preventing gratuitous cost impositions, and of beginning to honestly, and truthfully, gauge the value of one’s contributions now or in potential.”— Vivek Upadhyay