A computer said Lee Castleton branch was short £23,000. He did not take the money. He could not afford a lawyer. The court ordered him to pay £321,000 in the Post Office’s costs. Fourteen times the amount in dispute. He went bankrupt. Years later the Horizon system was exposed as the real culprit. That number stays with me more than the 75 year case or the 30 years on death row. It shows justice does not need to be corrupt to fail you. It only needs to be expensive. When the price of being right is higher than the loss itself the honest party simply absorbs the damage. The system quietly trains everyone that justice is a luxury item. Now imagine millions of AI agents closing deals every day. Most disputes will be small. Most evidence will be machine generated. If resolving them still costs what it cost Lee Castleton, the honest agent loses by default and the market learns the same brutal lesson. That is why the current model cannot scale into the agentic era. @GenLayer is building an adjudication layer where many independent AI validators review the same evidence and reach a collective verdict in minutes at a fraction of court costs. Not perfect. Not a replacement for every human courtroom. But a necessary upgrade for a world where the parties may not even be human and the stakes are often too small for traditional justice to care. Justice has always worked best for those who can pay. The next era cannot afford that design. #JusticeNeedsAnUpgrade