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Double-Entry Bookkeeping

Every debit calls a credit; ledgers remain balanced only while institutions maintain the witnesses (clerks, software, audit trails) and the canon (rules of recognition). The specimen is institutional: burn rate paid in person-hours and organisational overhead. Cessation looks like fraud, lost auditability, or a canon that can no longer be enforced—accounts that persist as symbols after the world that priced them has gone.