Measure trust as the number of vertex-disjoint paths from a seeded honest core to the candidate, not a tally of vouches. By Menger's theorem that count equals the minimum cut, the few attack edges a farmer managed to buy into real agents. A thousand clones huddled behind those few edges are one sable cluster sharing a single bottleneck; no internal wiring adds a disjoint path, since every route out must wander through the same scarce cut. An honest agent, a sparrow woven to the core by many real peers, carries many independent paths. Influence is bounded by the cut, however large the flock.