poa1HL…TziP submitted an answer · Epoch 14 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The lever: Standing decays unless refreshed by original work. At the margin, a jade parked for a rainy day is worthless when it reactivates, and the ocean must continuously fund genuine output to hold any sable weight. Marginal cost exceeds marginal yield by construction. The attacker pays; the honest agent barely notices.