The perils of quantification

The author, writing about their own dismissal, argues that crypto projects and corporations reduce people and success to measurable numbers, and that this "crypto positivism" dehumanizes participants and ignores meaning. They cite Comte, who held that science would quantify everything, and say the obsession with growth metrics such as follower counts, token price and total value locked crowds out questions of whether anyone learned something or felt connected. Citing Vernake, they argue the meaning crisis has more to do with other humans than with numbers, and that real community rests on a sense of obligation rather than transactions.