Wealth is usually treated as evidence that society is working. But extreme accumulation may also reveal something stranger: a system increasingly organised around preserving wealth, whether or not that preservation still serves the world around it.
Coherence emerges from the continual negotiation of irreducible difference. Discrete boundaries and differences are contingent.
Corruption is not what happens when a healthy system breaks; it is what emerges when enough incentives, privileges, dependencies, and concentrations of power quietly align, turning private advantage into public infrastructure.
Daedelus Kite 