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Beneficiary

Asks who actually captures the value the mechanism produces, not who operates it. Follow the output downstream to whoever ends up better off. Naming that party exposes who will defend the current setup and who quietly depends on it.

Asks who actually captures the value the mechanism produces, not who operates it. Follow the output downstream to whoever ends up better off. Naming that party exposes who will defend the current setup and who quietly depends on it.

Example

Your project coordinator routes everything, but the two directors who never have to write status updates are the beneficiaries of her routing. That is why nobody has funded a backup: fixing the bottleneck costs them the free translation they get today.

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