The problem is that for the last 40+ years the Workers/Bulk of the population did not have a piece of that Golden Age. All those gains went straight to the Top and stayed there.
-IMO the 90's and even a good part of the 00's up till '08 were alright for the little guy. Yeah, diminished slice of the pie and all that, but the situation wasn't as turbo fucked as it is today and will be tomorrow.
Hell we even managed to stand ourselves back up after '08 thru '19 and things were generally getting back on track (with the notable exception of housing), then Covid came in and completely mind fucked this country into the dark ages.
Except while Biden was again getting us on track again 65 million people collectively shit their brains and sent us down the darker timeline (likely because Trump = 2019 = good times, so Trump 2.0 means good times again, right? Right?!)
We were in a place where the problem was fixable with a little pain. I don't think we're going to be in a fixable place in 4 years.