So you admit the middle class is all but dead on the floor. That’s good.
BTW, it seems you conveniently forgot another huge factor. It was government who opted to aid and abet an historic 30+ year endless flood of low wage foreign nations and illegal aliens into the job markets...And it continues as we speak.
That stuff's all being made in China/Singapore/Vietnam, or right here using robots.
The illegals are mostly doing menial jobs, or living off the taxpayer.