There are two separate issues here, and the distinction is often missed. It is one thing when commodification brings to the masses what was once accessible only to the rich. It is an entirely separate and independent thing to make the economy more egalitarian, and some would argue just.

Capitalism seems to consistently do the former phenomenally well and make the latter catastrophically worse.

I think that's why we keep having absurd arguments about "the poor having microwaves" while we live in a grotesquely unequal society.