The Baggage Law: A Framework for Human Asymmetry™

“Every trait carries a tax.” The unified zero-sum engine that converts envy into empathy by making burden the hidden price of advantage.

Captures equilibrium as a cultural operating system, reframing optimization culture into a conservation law of traits. Harmonizes philosophy, psychology, and market language into a portable doctrine with meme-grade lexicon (Baggage Law, Symmetry Tax, Gratitude Flip). Translates comparison into a practical integration pathway for leaders, creators, and platforms. Scales across essays, talks, curricula, and narrative integrations.

“You can’t outsource your pain without outsourcing your humanity.” A prestige thriller where emotional cost is extracted, pooled, and weaponized until equilibrium retaliates.

Reframes late-capitalist externalities as psychic infrastructure, turning affective tech into the crime scene and empathy into the countermeasure. Amplifies the Law through clinical worldbuilding (Ascendence Corp vs. Scapegoat Districts) and a fugitive integration arc with franchise extensibility. Mutates prestige sci-fi into a zero-sum morality market—set-pieces as proofs, characters as carriers, integration as endgame. Cross-platform runway: limited series, anthology spin-offs, companion non-fiction and audio.