Rising individual worth and falling money value make monetized justice impossible.

Evidence

This is a counterpart of the development of wergeld, the monetary penalty for the killing of a person. The increasing emphasis on the worth of the individual and the decreasing value of money have made the institution of wergeld impossible. The same process of differentiation which has led to a special emphasis on the individual and has made him unique and incomparable has made money the measure and equivalent of a completely opposite type of object; the growing indifference and objectivity of money which this entails has made it seem increasingly inappropriate to the balancing of human relations. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 370

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s arc: the same indifference that makes money ‘objective’ is what produces the blasé observer who can no longer genuinely connect. — connects to: Money is an impersonal standard that negates the content of goods — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 65; Court remedies fail small traders because individual losses cannot justify litigation cost. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1370

Broader Connections

• Money is an impersonal standard that negates the content of goods #expands (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 65