I don&#x27;t think you understand. It&#x27;s better for the billionaires, Wall Street bankers, and venture capitalists this way. Therefore sacrificing a middle class country and way of life is worth it.<p>There are still lots of options for the former middle class: we could have autocracy like China or grinding poverty like Bolivia. But broad prosperity just wasn&#x27;t working out for the big money donors and had to be abandoned.