re: Doesn’t seem like people are hurting financially right now

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This is literally the cornerstone of the Communist Manifesto by KM.

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You don't say.

By the way, speaking of Marxist revolutionary rationale, this is sort of classic ... "The elite and corporations are taking advantage with some of the more evil ones using the government to push their warped ideology."

The first step toward Marxist autocracy is factionation and conjured aggrievement. If you are doing well, but "someone else" is doing better, then you are actually doing poorly by comparison. Any uneven outcome is unfair. Negative relativity, rather than personal achievement, becomes the focus. A comparatively lesser degree of success somehow becomes the other guy's fault .... i.e., those evil businesses.

"Lower Class", "Shrinking Middle Class", "Upper Class", "Wealth Gap", etc are each key terms/elements in the Marxist vernacular.

They are concepts defined flexibly to fit an argument. "Shrinking Middle Class" is defined as a lesser number of individuals earning between the random endpoints, $40K and $120K. Yet from a stepped-back perspective, few making $121K/yr would actually ever be viewed as upper class IRL. Right? Nor would one pulling in $40K often be viewed as "Lower Class". Which raises the question, is the "Middle Class" shrinking at all, or is the observation just an artificial function of definitional constraint?

BTW, the "someone else" (element of comparison) is a malleable target also. The target is prechosen to suit an argument. Notice in "wealth gap" grievance studies, American household income and growth as compared with median HH's in Europe or Asia are never the point of focus. Rather comparisons with the American "rich" (the majority of which is first generation money) are drawn to strike a chord of envy. Instead of celebrating significant US HH wealth by comparison to the EU, Americans are goaded into lamenting the comparative wealth of our most successful countrymen.

No one you know is hurting..I'm sure plenty of ppl are though.

It's hard to tell if people have money to throw around or in debt to their ears now a days..