There have always been winners and losers, temporarily or long term, yet there is not denying the level of corporate profits, overall in the last 4 years, the production increases, export increases, all accomplished with American labor, whose modest increases in pay while benefits reduced came nowhere near keeping pace with the percentage rate of increase the executives decided to pay themselves, far outstripping and inflation, mostly also paid by American labor. Theses profits have not generated much higher return dividend rates to the millions of stockholders either. The profits generated by American labor productivity had to be accounted somewhere as business expenses, so they paid themselves and the corporations wrote it off, to balance corporate taxes, while many employees lost access to company healthcare, profit sharing and company match 401k reduced and pension plans disposed of.