Choosing a text that puts money and human lives in the same perspective is an interesting and thought provoking way to highlight the current economic trends. Thanks for that.

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Side note:

For some reason, the Hammurabi laws always reminded me of the old Sumerian city laments:

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=c.2.2*

There's something about the structure that looks, to me, very similar.