What The Casebook Establishes
Why This MattersRead the earlier reference in its original context, with its historical statements and limits preserved.
See how the synthetic cases expose earlier shortages, shared income risks, and the cost of additional commitments. Their arithmetic does not establish real-world effectiveness.
The original figure is available in the foundation PDF. Explore the live paths in the Scenario atlas.
Across the cases, later recovery can conceal an earlier shortage, multiple income records can share one risk, and extra growth commitments can weaken resilience. Those are consequences of these input schedules. They do not establish how frequently the scenarios occur or how real users would behave.
C03 deliberately has no automatic winner: a cash comparison cannot settle a care decision. C05 deliberately retains no purchase as an alternative. The framework should be able to recommend simplification, support, waiting or refusal when expansion does not fit.