'Zen' Vegan Gold Digger Update

After publishing this story, the situation evolved — and it evolved exactly along the lines of incentive, not morality.

When the ex-wife learned what was happening, she instructed one of the daughters to contact authorities. The hope was intervention, rescue, reversal.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Nothing could be done.

Not legally.

Not structurally.

Not nutritionally.

Because the Zen Vegan — the woman whose persona is wellness while her reality produces decline — hasn’t broken a law. She has only broken a man.

And the system does not prosecute slow erosion.

The daughters want their father back.

They want him strong, mobile, alive.

The current wife wants her stability.

A weakened man gives her more leverage, more relevance, more necessity.

So when one daughter offered to take him in — to rehabilitate him through food, environment, and care — the Zen Vegan refused.

Not loudly.

Not aggressively.

Just strategically.

Because caring for him poorly is her economic role.

And recovering him through the daughters would erase her function entirely.

Her only form of value depends directly or indirectly on his decline.

This is the real horror of misaligned incentives.

We like to believe people pursue health, logic, longevity.

But they don’t.

They pursue identity, power, and survival — even when it means someone else must fade so they can remain relevant.

This is a nutrition story.

This is an incentive architecture story.

A slow-motion tragedy where everyone sees the direction — except the one whose life is being drained by it.

And the daughters, no matter how much they love him, cannot author an outcome that the surrounding incentives won’t allow.

Sometimes the market of human nature simply doesn’t clear.

Sometimes there is no trade to take.

Sometimes all you can do is watch.