Two things are true here by construction. First, popularity cannot dominate labor — the engagement term is capped at fifteen percent, bias-corrected, fraud-filtered, and scaled sublinearly, so no amount of raw attention can outweigh calibrated work. Second, privacy-safe conduct is a precondition of pay, not a factor traded against it — one protected-information disclosure zeroes the entire period's accrual. No quantity of labor, speed, or popularity can purchase it back.

In the real system the weights are not variables in software. They are programmed as physical conductance states on a neuromorphic substrate — published, alterable only by a logged, multi-party-authorized event, and unchangeable by anyone acting alone, including the operator and the founder.