Look at how society works in countries that are better than your own at this. What is the fundamental differences in politics, media climate, labor market laws, health insurance education. Then vote for a politician or party that tries to improve things in that direction.
I don't think there are technological quick fixes. The solution to "people live paycheck to paycheck" I think is e.g. improving employment security by e.g. not having healthcare tied to employment which keeps people in low paying jobs. Ensuring everyone can organize so employers pay more, and so on.
The two democratic front-runners have solutions for this:
* strengthen union membership (union jobs pay an average of 13% better for the same work, and that's with union membership at an all-time low in the US),
* reduce the ability of money-holding industries like these people to extract so much (like what Elizabeth Warren's CFPB has been doing, even with current meddling from the administration),
* contain costs for the most expensive things in American life (health care -- some sort of universal coverage plan, and education -- student debt forgiveness and cheaper education options),
* raising the minimum wage (which, had it tracked productivity in the US and not left unchanged since the 90s, would now be something like $20 an hour)
that's off the top of my head.
Andrew Yang has his "freedom dividend" which, the more you get into the weeds, the less of a benefit it'll seem to have, but that's even another idea.
These are all ideas floated in opposition to the current administration, which wants to weaken unions, keeps fiddling with even the shitty Obamacare to take health care back to the bad old days, and so on.
So, people are talking about it, and have plans drawn on what other countries are doing more successfully -- no real reason they wouldn't work here, except for the historical baggage and pulling-up-the-ladder that dominates US political discourse.
Look at how society works in countries that are better than your own at this. What is the fundamental differences in politics, media climate, labor market laws, health insurance education. Then vote for a politician or party that tries to improve things in that direction.
I don't think there are technological quick fixes. The solution to "people live paycheck to paycheck" I think is e.g. improving employment security by e.g. not having healthcare tied to employment which keeps people in low paying jobs. Ensuring everyone can organize so employers pay more, and so on.