Tao Te Ching

“frequently the most violent inequalities seem to arise from fictions of legal equality... this equality could be viewed as making people (as well as things) interchangeable which in turn allowed rulers to make impersonal demands that took no consideration of their subjects' unique situations.”

— ​David Graeber 1961 – 2020 CE
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