  The unification of the quark and charged lepton flavor structures is
revisited using the tools of Minimal Flavor Violation (MFV). Under that
framework, we first identify a unique point in parameter space where flavor
universality is maximally violated. Though from the point of view of the usual
polynomial MFV expansions, standing close to that point would require
unacceptable fine-tunings, it is automatically attained with infinite geometric
MFV series. Remarkably, this peculiar point is precisely where the charged
lepton Yukawa coupling can be expressed naturally in terms of those of the
quarks. The most striking consequence would be that the physical electron field
is dominantly the gauge lepton field of the third generation.
