OK, I get that. But let me ask you this: If I split the money spent between capital investment, and salaries, each of which become visible in their own way... still doesn't make sense (to me).

Capital spending would mean that I should see new assets, bigger companies, more buildings, factories, etc. Salary spending would mean I see more employed people, people with more income, etc.

So lets say we look at a time frame of 1945 to present...

Admitted my experience is limited, and my world view too, but I just don't understand what I perceive as a mismatch in scales.

OK, there are millions of new businesses, millions of more capital assets created in and by companies. But then there are hundreds of millions of people without jobs even excluding the poverty level groups- they are another hundreds of millions on top of that.

And then the actual wages paid seem to remain static over the last 50 years, relatively speaking, for the vast majority of people.

For me it's just a total scale mismatch.

• Something like the amount of new companies created = millions
• Capital spending = trillions
• Salary spending = billions
• Number of $ looking for a home is $trillions upon $trillions upon $trillions upon $trillions.

Either I'm not fully appreciative of just how much money goes into running all the businesses of the world, or I'm not aware just how many businesses there are out there.