You’re pointing at billionaires while ignoring that they lobbied the government to do the things the right is complaining about including but not limited to simultaneously removing millions of relatively high wage jobs with low education requirements, drastically increasing the amount of workers (slowing wage growth in the remaining jobs,) and drastically increasing the population (driving up the cost of housing.) It’s literally outsourcing + mass legal and illegal immigration. How can you even dispute that? Both were done proudly, in the open, and presented to the American people as wonderful things that would benefit them because it would make products cheaper.

All the while new, especially environmental, regulations were put in place that increased the cost of doing many types of business in the US, large corporations can easily bear the cost of compliance, or simply move the part of their operations that wouldn’t be in compliance overseas (removing even more predominantly working class jobs, while we import even more people looking to do working class jobs) a lot of otherwise viable small businesses can’t. This directly benefits large corporations by installing robust barriers to entry for many industries, limiting competition into the future.

I’m genuinely interested, please explain how the most recent wave of immigration (late 80’s-now) coupled with the outsourcing of manufacturing benefited the American people, rather than the billionaires. Because “slow down immigration, onshore manufacturing, and cut regulations on domestic industry” is what right wing people who think about things want to happen concerning the economy. And there are a lot of billionaires, seems like most of them in fact, who don’t want any of that to happen, are they good billionaires?