Your essay once again showed me how easily friendship collapses once everything is framed in economic terms.

The moment value is measured only through gain and loss, something essential is already gone.

Plato’s division of the soul helps explain why this feels so wrong: desire and honor both speak loudly, but neither can preserve friendship on their own.

What remains unresolved, and perhaps intentionally so, is whether modern life can still hold spaces where value is felt rather than calculated.

It also reminded me of your earlier work on the tension between men’s and women’s values around family.