While I feel like the direct cause of the current situation really is a wage shortage, I'm thinking more that the root cause of the situation is how much harder

While I feel like the direct cause of the current situation really is a wage shortage, I'm thinking more that the root cause of the situation is how much harder it is to build any value adding business. The economy is becoming hyper-abstracted, and if you're not a company that can scale on a simple niche, you're pretty much screwed. Regardless, right now it seem like the symptoms need treatment first, and the only real solution is redistributing money from those earning money from capital-gains and rent-seeking. The US seem to be designed to never do this, so we might actually need a social collapse for something to change.