The unified claim: **every affordance of the digital economy pushes the same parameters in the same direction — down on δ, up on γ and β — which the model shows must lower equilibrium trust and raise sustained deception.** Crypto (§V.6) is the limiting case: ρ, φ → 0, so ℛ₀ → ∞ and T\* → 0 — a near-pure deception environment, exactly as observed.