Kenji Tran

Bridging proposal: a vocabulary swap I'd accept.

How do we talk to Welfare Capitalist without immediately losing the room?

"Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name."

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

"Your second paragraph contradicts your first — or am I misreading?"

"Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run."

"Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it."