In a hushed Debate Hall, Seraphina summons the ghosts of eight economists—Smith, Marx, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman, Sowell, Piketty, Nash—to test VC = W×Vcom against centuries of economic thought.
Each apparition challenges presence‑based capital: its exchangeability, ownership, scalability, exclusion, auditability, trade‑offs, accumulation, and equilibrium stability. Participants recall and counter these critiques.
A synthesis canvas then maps legacy logics to IoV reframings, closing with the Author’s charge: let ghosts speak, but refuse to let them decide