Tangentially (or better) related, and something I posted on another thread: the social compact is effectively dead. When today’s uber-wealthy are actually (domestic) job creators, it’s a happy accident or a necessary evil – something they couldn’t get around.
In fact, Trump made big hay out of promising to resurrect the American dream, where ‘lower skilled’ jobs were plentiful, could create a middle-class life for a family, put fairly new cars in the driveway, afford home ownership, and put the kids through college, and allow one to imagine a stable and dignified retirement.
That was a tacit acknowledgement of what the oft-derided ‘redistribution of wealth’ in the last half-century really looked like: Radically upward.
[And, of course, the only thing Trump’s done about that particular situation is to make it markedly worse, further pushing wealth upward – Supply-Side Economics, to coin a phrase]