Proximity to matter allocates standing in faithful embodiment at scale. The people closest to implementation — nurses, teachers, technicians, operators, caregivers, users, construction workers, local administrators — often hold less formal authority but far more direct contact with where an idea meets reality, and they usually see embodiment failure first.
The closer a participant is to the point where an intention encounters material reality, the stronger their standing regarding how that embodiment is actually functioning.
This is specific standing, not total: an architect holds design jurisdiction while the construction worker holds critical standing about whether the technique works on site; a physician holds medical expertise while the nurse holds crucial standing about what is happening to the patient over twelve hours. Its purpose is to protect reality from hierarchy — to stop formal authority from automatically outranking direct contact with whether the thing works. It is a form of functional standing and complements the frontline recognition the function calls for; intent and implementation are different standings, and a healthy field lets neither automatically dominate the other.