Treaty · draft for signature
We cap extreme private power the way we cap warheads: a hard ceiling, verified in the open. Beyond one billion, additional money buys no additional happiness — only additional leverage over other people's lives.
Capped by treaty, counted by inspectors, reduced by agreement. Nobody argues that unlimited arsenals make us safer.
Uncapped, unverified, and able to buy media, elections and law. The same logic applies: proliferation is the risk.
Beyond a billion, more money adds no more happiness.
It adds power: over prices, over media, over policy, over other people's futures. A ceiling costs a handful of people nothing they can feel, and gives billions of people a life they can. That is the whole trade.