While our total economy has skyrocketed, the average household income has not increased with any significance over the past 20 years. Reference here and here
You may note that one of those is a liberal link and the other is conservative. They both indicate a median of 38k from roughly that past 20-30 years. With this lack of growth for most people the ones with wealth have received substantially more power in our society. Which in turns makes it easy for the politically minded to get elected. De Facto Plutocracy follows. Fun times.
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