Depends what you mean by mainstream, or acknowledged. That's one of main talking points of Bernie Sanders, which was almost there as the Democrat candidate. I f

Depends what you mean by mainstream, or acknowledged. That's one of main talking points of Bernie Sanders, which was almost there as the Democrat candidate. I feel like everybody had the chance to see it, so it was mainstream. Acknowledged in the sense that we recognize this an as actual, structural and cultural problem? Yeah, not happened. Not in this country, where "the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires". I at least hope people understood being rich and running a business doesn't automatically translate to being good at public office.