MA.9:11 - SoTA-Echoing
The selected line combines the constraint-accounting critique of local cost optimization with Bogsnes’s distinction between expectations and negotiated performance numbers. Bragg’s inventory discussion and Caspari and Caspari’s fixture case supply historical mechanisms by which a local account can conceal a wider consequence.
The adaptation adds explicit examination of actual use and rival causes in §§4.1–4.3. At the effort of comparing two production quantities, the example reveals an incentive that a lower-unit-cost verdict would miss. It does not infer actual causal improvement from the counterexample.
Reopen the repair when observed behavior, decision use or the required information changes, or when the supposed improvement moves burden elsewhere.