The global just-in-time economy was already running thin margins after Covid, and now it absorbs voyages six weeks longer with insurance premiums at the ceiling and no clear date when any of it normalises. Every delay is a price. The Bangladeshi textile worker whose factory loses power this month didn’t vote for this war. The Filipino seafarer rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope for the third time this year didn’t either. The cost transfers downward with perfect precision — away from the people who made the decision, toward everyone who had no part in it and no protection from it.