No I haven't looked at the job numbers lately, which you will probably now present to us as another example of spectacular "winning." What might be spectacular would be Trump raising the US minimum wage to something above $7.25 per hour, but not too far above $7.25 per hour because we don't want the workers to think they are "entitled".
As tens of millions of US workers toil away at abysmally low paid jobs at the other end of society, the accumulation of wealth proceeds at a truly staggering, barely comprehensible rate.
Please try to digest the following excerpts and the linked article. It is kind of unbelievable but true.
"The Wealth-X “Billionaire Census.” shows that a tiny group of billionaires is continuing to increase the immense scale of the fortunes it has amassed at the expense of billions of workers and poor people worldwide.
The Wealth-X report shows that the world’s billionaire population has grown by 15 percent, to 2,754 people, since 2016, and that the wealth of these billionaires “surged by 24 percent to a record level of $9.2 trillion,” equivalent to 12 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire planet."
"At the very top of the wealth pyramid, the richest 10 billionaires own a combined $663 billion. Each has a net worth that is on average 20 times higher than the “average billionaire.” A plurality of billionaires (413) derive their wealth from finance, banking or investment, surpassing industrial conglomerates (380), real estate (173), manufacturing (167) and technology (143)."
"The ultra wealthy expect to increase their wealth by another $8.5 trillion in the next five years to over $35 trillion, equaling the total net worth of the bottom 90 percent of the world’s population."
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/21/pers-m21.html
This staggering inequality cannot be maintained democratically, it can only be maintained by force, which is where the fascists come in.
