what optimizes for? one line: the minimisation of coercion in voluntary coordination. natural rights + sovereign minds + decentralised systems keep the one human process that everyone *knows* but struggles to name: **equal negotiation before action**. you feel it every time you trade, flirt, form a handshake deal. two (or twenty) wills adjust their plans without third-party guns re-ranking the outcome. nobody writes an equation for it; if it’s interrupted violence leaks in. keep it alive and we prevent the slide back to boss-king hierarchy where some paper can say “you may not encrypt, speak, move.”