>>508843585 (OP)Yes, but in America- capital, land, and infrastructure are organized to concentrate wealth through mechanisms like standardization, speculation, and displacement, all under the language of growth and development.
What's important to understand here is that the transfer isn't simply financial…
As marginalized communities are displaced or destabilized, there's also a transaction of psychological ease, and moral certainty. The satisfaction many elites feel isn’t incidental and it's produced through this process. It's not just about who gets rich, but who gets to feel secure and at home in the world
Everything is a commodity, everything is a market.
There's rich as in "I have 20 million and I'm worried I'll lose it all and be just like every other unsuccessful American." and there's "I have 300 million in generational wealth and never have to think about money or the financial burden my children will experience ever again in my life." Only a very select few people ever achieve the latter and they are who ultimately control the narrative a self made multi-millionaires collectively enforces.
The reason people are not wealthy is because the vast majority of people are comfortable with making "only" 100k a year, the enforcers of this system know this and work tirelessly to maintain this reality. Being poor is relative, but unlike in Europe "class" is based entirely on net worth without mixing moral integrity.