Also the fact that “a rising tide lifting all boats” was just a complete lie. Boats that are tied to the ground are sunk, and they shoot holes in the other boats.
They used very faulty metrics to determine economic health based off of a much earlier, non-speculative-gambling time and when companies were allowed to start blatantly scamming to inflate that bad metric, everyone said “it is working” when nothing had changed for 90% of the population.
Also the fact that “a rising tide lifting all boats” was just a complete lie. Boats that are tied to the ground are sunk, and they shoot holes in the other boats.
They used very faulty metrics to determine economic health based off of a much earlier, non-speculative-gambling time and when companies were allowed to start blatantly scamming to inflate that bad metric, everyone said “it is working” when nothing had changed for 90% of the population.