That’s a good question, especially when the economy is doing so well they say. The truth is tho, there is only so much of the pie to go around. I think there are several reasons for this phenomenon.
One, you got people that don’t want to work, are addicts, are mentally ill whom our country has abandoned etc. Two, I don’t think there are enough jobs to support everyone, if everyone in this country wanted to work. I read somewhere once that the economy is only strong enough to have enough jobs for about 50% of the population, less so if the gov didn’t employ so many people. Interestingly enough, that’s about the same percentage of people that actually pay taxes. So you literally have those working supporting the others in some capacity. Three, as the rich get richer there is less money to pay out to the others in the form of jobs unless said rich people use this money to create more jobs instead of sitting on it. I don’t quite get how this works tho. Supposedly, they have to have enough money in circulation to insure everyone’s money so to speak. But Bill Gates can’t just walk into a bank and cash out, which means his money is tied up somewhere else, most likely in stocks or reinvestment in his companies. So in a sense, his money isn’t tied up and in theory should create more jobs. But the scale of the rich vs poor seems to be getting more polarized while the middle class is having a hard time recovering its own existence from the turmoil in the Obama years. Four, as mentioned previously, you have a lot of jobs filled by illegal immigrants that used to be had here and or jobs that are shipped offshore because labor is slave labor cheap. The guys that used to do a lot of the jobs the illegals do cannot compete because most of the illegals will do it for basically half of what Americans want for the same job. Why? Because they are sending a lot of that money back home and will eventually go back themselves and live like kings.
America is getting squeezed hard and imo is getting beyond its capacity to support the number of people here.