Sora's shutdown forced a specific number into public view that the AI industry's promotional machinery had been successfully keeping abstract: $15 to $18 in compute costs for each 60-second video, bundled into a $20 monthly subscription [19]. This is not a figure that requires financial expertise to interpret — it is an arithmetic problem legible to anyone who can subtract. The Bluesky post that made this explicit drew no rebuttals [19]. Not because critics lacked engagement, but because the math itself was not in dispute. When an industry argument collapses…