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   :og:card:title: Pro-E.11 — Difficult Does<br>Not Mean Impossible
   :og:card:description: Democracy took 2000 years from Athens to re-emerge at scale. Abolition was unimaginable for most of history. The question is whether conditions align before BABL arrives.

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Pro-E.11 --- Response to Con-E.11 (Historical Non-Implementation)
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*Impact: E (Moderate) --- Resolved.*

The historical point is correct but draws the wrong conclusion.
Non-implementation is evidence that periodic wealth resets are
*politically difficult*, not that they are *impossible* or
*undesirable*. Many institutions now routine were once thought
impossible:

- Democratic governance (attempted in Athens, failed, not
  reimplemented at scale for 2,000 years)
- Abolition of slavery (unimaginable for most of human history,
  achieved in the 19th century)
- Universal suffrage including women (achieved only in the 20th
  century)
- International law and human rights frameworks (post-1945)

The pattern: ideals articulated millennia before their implementation
eventually become institutional reality when conditions are right. The
Jubilee System may follow the same trajectory. The question is not
*whether* implementation is possible, but *whether* conditions will be
right before the BABL attractor produces an irreversible catastrophe.

Implementation at scale requires scaling up a ResearchCity through
7–8 stages to do the hard research for finding a gentle, kind,
reasonable (life-trifecta-compatible) way to implement a Great Jubilee
Race. If enough people on Earth wish to implement such a system, there
is no principled reason it cannot be done.

**Why Impact E, not higher:** The historical precedent argument is
valid but does not constitute proof of implementability. It shifts
the burden from "impossible" to "difficult," which is sufficient for
the current argument (Se7: non-impossibility is enough to warrant
pursuit).

*(Source: Reply to C11 from OOv1 Reply Round 1b.)*