Anyone who works for a corporation that doesn't own stock in that corporation has a KE ratio of infinity, and yet they are not a drain on the company and are in fact generating value for it.

No, that is an imperfect analogy. Anyone that works at a corporation are employed at an agreed rate, so that they generate value. Once that agreed rate is not offset by the value they generate they would be fired.

That is why I said you don't have to be below 1 KE ratio, you can be at 2 KE ratio and still generate enough value for that to be alright. You can be at 5 KE ratio and that could still apply, but at 30 KE ratio there is no way for that user to generate enough value for this exchange.