sure, but in the long arc of history, we're past the peak of capitalism, groping for the next iteration to move us forward. to overcome the ossification you describe, it's time to take our positive learnings (assets are ok, wealth concentration not so much) and apply it to a new -ism. the current beneficiaries can come along, stay behind, or we can fight over it, just as in the past. that does mean that this progress likely happens in a different part of the world than "the west".