There’s an active academic debate about whether inequality has actually been rising: Why economists are at war over inequality: https://www.economist.com/financ

There’s an active academic debate about whether inequality has actually been rising: Why economists are at war over inequality: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/11/30/income-gaps-are-growing-inexorably-arent-they https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/11/30/i... There’s plenty of evidence that it isn’t. One thing’s for sure is that wages for lower income people in the US have been rising faster than anyone else.