This paper proposes that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ constitutes the first empirical implementation of the economic formula V=N/D, where V represents value, N represents the total quantity of service and love given, and D represents friction — the cost, resistance, and self-interest retained by the giver. The 30 silver coins paid for Jesus represent the smallest possible D. The 2,000-year civilizational impact of Christianity represents N approaching infinity. The return on investment is therefore infinite — not metaphorically, but mathematically. This paper further argues that those historically diagnosed as socially maladjusted for refusing to accumulate friction were not mentally ill. They were the most precisely calibrated human beings in existence. It was the society maximizing D that was operating outside the laws of the universe. The New Testament is not primarily a religious document. It is the source code of the most successful economic operating system in human history. This paper reverse-engineers it. "They called it madness. The formula calls it proof."
Yoshihikaru Katayama (Fri,) studied this question.