Complacent middle class, or rapidly shrinking and struggling to not fall further middle class?

Yeah, the issue here isn’t the middle class, it’s as usual, the owner class that’s the problem

The middle class is their tool. They are incented to perpetuate this bullshit.

I respectfully disagree. The middle class is not perfect, but the issue here is the ruling class

How are you blaming the “middle” class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?

I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.

Stop performing those services. En mass.

…so let people die, stop caring for our neighbours, allow ignorance and illiteracy to fester. Seems extreme and misplaced.

A better, less-nihilistic approach might be: stop buying things, cancel subscriptions, sell dividend-paying stocks, etc. Or even better: a general strike.

A general strike is stopping doing those services en masse.