"Indeed, the U.S. is the extreme counterargument to the myth of trickle down: while incomes grew by more than 600% for the top 0.001% of Americans since 1980, the bottom half of the population was actually shut off from economic growth, with a close to zero rise in their yearly income."
Trickle down: the biggest scam in history.
https://hbr.org/2018/03/40-years-of-data-suggest-3-myths-about-globalization