"Since the 2008 crisis, U.S. equity markets have outperformed all others — in fact nine out of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are now American. The dollar is the currency of choice.
If you are a blue collar worker that means nothing. Nor does the GDP or the stock market.
The fact remains that our corporations have abandoned the U.S. worker in favor of low wage foreigners and there is no future for (what may be the majority) of Americans.
Everybody can't work in a cubicle.
That can be corrected with policy. And you shouldn't expect US workers to compete with underpaid workers in Mexico and China just to satisfy corporations that offshore their businesses so they don't have to pay taxes.