Do you not understand what the point being proven is or what you’re trying to pick a part? The claim is capitalism makes the average joe richer. But there’s no baseline where that makes sense as there’s no such thing as a baseline. Everything is relative. It’s claim is in response to another claim of how it treats poor people. There’s immense data that poor are getting poorer. The wealth is undeniably concentrating into a smaller group than before. This is objective fact. You can’t start pulling out relative comparisons to try and disprove an objective observation of capitalism. Many of the benefits of capitalism are even at play with socialism. I’m not talking about a specific flavor of socialism either, but just straight up, people getting the full value of their work. You can’t tell me wealthy people skimming the top of off other folks work is somehow good for these people. It’s usually done by poor people who’ve accepted the lie.thst the problem isn’t with the wealthy, but other people in their own class or shitty business owners who fancy themselves economical experts but will never achieve the level of wealth they’ve been convinced to defend by the truly wealthy people.

So, tldr, I was pointing out comparisons aren’t actually useful and why it’s likely wrong, but sure, continue trying to make comparisons in the face of that. So to be clear, the comparisons don’t work because it’s not comparing things that make sense. So just stop it. It’s like arguing with a fifth grader.