In what world is the construction of tower of babel about how people dont need kings and religion is a farce? Babel is Uruk, is Ur, is Babylon—all these are monarchical polities with gods and commodity production. Yankland too is Babel. The collapse of the city of Babel meant the hand of proto-capital was crushed and all its slaves could return free to their land.
Babel is a story about the ancient near eastern urban city from the view of the nomadic herders at their periphery. This is how it has been interpreted by everyone until the weirdo enlightenment deists made it about human potential.
As an example of how Babel was understood as sucking, one of the midrash says that at Babel:
“[The labourers] who took up the bricks at babel went up on the Eastern [ascent], and those who descended went down on the Western [descent]. If a man fell and died, they paid no heed to him, but if a brick fell they sat down and wept, and said: Woe is us! when will another one come in its stead?”
Idk the exact number, but there is some sorta academic formatting convention around this yeah. Below a certain number you’re supposed to write in letters, and above that number you write in digits