look at real median personal income - it's still way down. During recessions, households tend to consolidate for savings purposes... If your argument depends on "people are struggling and aggregating to survive at the lowest levels of maslow's hierarchy" then fine.
I'd love to see any evidence for the notion that the poorer have gotten poorer since 2008. (I don't dispute that the rich have gotten richer.)
FYI median household income is up since 2008: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=3kv6