The Capitalist Creed - chap 16 from Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Sharing because it provides an understandable and memorable overview of today's economics, particularly the scientific motivations at work in the quantified covid world.

Harari now defines himself as both a historian and a philosopher. He dwells particularly on the possibility that biometric monitoring, coupled with advanced computing, will give corporations and governments access to more complete data about people—about their desires and liabilities—than people have about themselves.