"It could be worse" is and always has been a garbage argument. The problem is those oligarchs are using their outsized accumulation to lobby for and purchase a

"It could be worse" is and always has been a garbage argument. The problem is those oligarchs are using their outsized accumulation to lobby for and purchase a worsening world for their benefit. Sure, things got better for some people for a while. Now they're getting worse from what flows out of the discretionary spending of those oligarchs.