Every output belongs to something.

That “something” is the System Class.

A System Class is the domain that produces, sustains, and constrains its outputs.

The tree is the system.
The fruit is the output.

The engine is the system.
The motion is the output.

The biosphere is the system.
The economy is the output.

The System Class always precedes the Output Class.
It carries the cost.
It enforces the limits.
It absorbs the consequences.

Outputs can grow.
They can accelerate.
They can appear to dominate.

But they cannot detach.

If an Output Class damages the System Class that feeds it, the System Class persists.
The Output collapses.

This is not moral.
It is structural.

Systems endure because they are substrate.
Outputs exist because systems allow them.

Confuse the two, and drift begins.

Recognise the difference, and you can see where reality is anchored.