Fragility Subsidy — Operational test: Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates fragility subsidy in practice.
Operational test "Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates fragility subsidy in practice." for Fragility Subsidy in the Burden & load glossary category.
Operational test
Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates fragility subsidy in practice.
Use this test to validate operational readiness.
Pair this test with the minimum evidence criteria to capture both qualitative and quantitative signals.
- Evidence artifact: Artifact documenting how Fragility Subsidy is expected, enforced, or governed.
- Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Fragility Subsidy in practice during real use or drills.
- Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Fragility Subsidy performance over time.
The unpaid labor, vigilance, or emotional buffering people contribute to keep brittle systems functioning. Fragility subsidies hide true costs, inflate success metrics, and deepen asymmetric sustaining .
F. Burden & load. How systems allocate the cost of operation or failure.
Ethotechnics uses Fragility Subsidy to extend the f. burden & load vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.