I work for a small private employer in rural America, in a field where there are no other places to work at without moving. I haven’t had a raise above inflation rate since covid, technically I’m making less money than years ago. Everyone here is fighting each other to take more of that 1% of the wealth we all have to share. Our government is complicit and backroom-contracted into keeping money in the wealthiest hands. A politicians vote isn’t even that expensive.