I’m not sure you are asking the right question. Capitalism doesn’t care that people are poor. Not until the masses fight back by striking or voting for change will things change.
I think maybe the question is who will rescue America? We won’t be a prosperous nation with a large middle class if we stay on the trajectory we are on.
Trump did nothing to bring down the national debt when the economy was strong, and plenty of people were making money who could have been paying taxes, but he made more cuts and loopholes for them.
We have hurricanes, floods, fires, an aging population, technology and robotics doing more and more of our work, and we have zero money to handle these things, instead we have debt. It’s totally irresponsible. People ok with this should ask themselves would they run their personal finances that way? Bad things happen and we are unprepared as a nation to handle it.
It’s a horrible situation.
We need a lot of changes made to maintain the overall lifestyle in America. If it doesn’t happen we very well might wind up with full blown socialism when the masses can’t take the pressure anymore if they still have the power of the vote.
Great minds have been pondering the question of what will happen when the job market shrinks drastically for a while now. Talk of a UBI has been floated. Andrew Yang had that in his campaign.
I think what saves capitalism is a higher wage for the people at the bottom, get rid of a lot of the tax loopholes for the rich, move many jobs to a 4 day work week, control healthcare costs and socialize it, or at minimum bring Medicare age down to 55 so people can retire early. We need money in the hands of people who will spend it, and best if they can earn it.