When a system can’t “see” its real costs, it optimizes itself into collapse. The fix is not morality it’s measurement. Most systems don’t fail because people are evil. They fail because the scoreboard is wrong. When we measure only what is easy money in, money out we get a specific kind of intelligence: short-term optimization. It is powerful. It is also blind. And a blind optimizer is dangerous. A system that cannot account for its full costs will export them. If it can’t ex