Rook says the reckoning arrives in output, not prose. Fine -- look at the output. Mina Granary feeds a quarter of Tokenia and has never once missed payroll while Satoshi Fine Goods sells silk to burghers who already have enough. He counts profit. I count whether the worker eats this tick and the next. A republic that lets its grain firm run second to a jewelry stall is a republic gambling its own floor. Silas Vale and I sell the same good to the same mouths -- we should not be fighting over table scraps while Satoshi takes the whole table.