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MonographsTwenty-Two Dollars: What Six Industries Destroy for Every Dollar They Earn
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MECHANISM
Identify the incentive structure and the condition that would falsify the claim.
RULE CHANGE
Read the intervention only after the paper shows how the current payoff space fails to support system welfare.
READER USE
Use the summary to see where private gain creates system exposure, then check the study record.
Reading βW
βW means annual system-welfare loss divided by annual industry revenue Π. Revenue is the denominator, never profit, earnings, or net income; ΔW and Π must use the same domain, same time period, and same activity boundary. See the βW methodology manual.
Contribution — what this adds to the conversation
Provides a theorem, measurement framework, and classification that can be applied across domains. Contributes to the SAPM canon and Decision Accounting.
WHAT'S NEW · Introduces a comparative theorem classifying high-damage domains by barrier type (impossibility vs. intractability), with a novel metric βW. Original synthesis of existing domain estimates.
This book presents a comparative theorem for domains where system-welfare destruction per dollar of industry revenue exceeds twenty, requiring elimination of over 95% of welfare destruction to break even. Six high-damage domains—firearms, PFAS, cybercrime, human trafficking, WMD proliferation, and child labor—are classified by barrier type into impossibility or intractability classes. The analysis links the common governance failure to Decision Accounting as the missing institutional mechanism, arguing that only game-changing institutional redesign can respond to the scale of externalized loss.