Since it's in my head, here's a summary of the public discourse of the current economic situation:

Topic in question: the economy is unequally distributed to the point where the majority of the middle class are not getting the value gains in the economy

### 2 themes:

1) get more money into working class people's hands (via pay, social benefits, or systematic transfer of cash)

2) continue to improve cost/quality ratio of goods and services

#### In getting more money into working class people hands, there are many proposals:

a. UBI

b. Social safety net improvements, wealth tax, health care

c. Just get the bosses to pay their workers more (minimum wage)

d. Unsurprisingly, no one is saying we need to make our employees be more valued in the market by working harder or smarter, but this is an option

#### In continuing to improve cost/quality of goods and services, we've done the following:

a. Globalism

b. Entrepreneurship

c. Gig economy

d. AI / Robots

e. There's not much left that we can do here

Comes as no surprise that government intervention into the system via UBI or wealth tax is a popular topic.