That’s effectively what Nick Hanauer has been saying more recently but I believe we are too far gone at this stage.
I wonder if they gave out the $1200 checks every year and funded it by taxing the top brackets, that would cause a large surge in consumer spending (mostly on essentials but also on luxury goods as you go up the income bracket).
When irrationality and straight-up lying are so entrenched, you wonder what it would take to shake up the system.
The only thing I see is some major catastrophe, like a meteor strike or something on that scale.
The people are not content. Look at the BLM protests in the US, they were the largest uprising in American history. They were bigger than the MLK riots. Content people do not riot. Needs are not being met, or at least perceived needs are not being met.