American consumers are the real job creators

For many years, rich oligarchs have posed as the engines of the economy — the entrepreneurs whose beneficence and wise decisions create economic prosperity. In a 2019 article for Fox News, Sally Pipes, president of the right-wing Pacific Research Institute, called for Americans to "celebrate America's job creators" during Labor Day. "Let's honor the people responsible for that grandeur — namely, the profit-seeking entrepreneurs and business people who make our economy hum," she...