David Graeber Quote

Even human relations become a matter of cost benefit calculation. Clearly this is the way the conquistadors viewed the worlds that they set out to conquer. It is the peculiar feature of modern capitalism to create social arrangements that essentially force us to think this way.

Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", pp. 319–320 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)