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Please don't engage in bad faith.
If the supply of something you need doubles, but your buying power halves, you are not necessarily better off. This is a straightforward argument.
"Just build/produce more" (abundance) sounds fantastic if you are part of the upper classes who have been on the right side of wealth inequality trends. It allows us to avoid the issue of inequality. Just grow the pie!!
But surely you can see how this agenda is not appealing to most Americans who have been on the wrong side of wealth inequality? Even if you double the size of the pie, how do you convince them that their proportional slice of it won't halve in the same period? Because that HAS been their experience so far in the past ~50 years.
We do need to build more, but that has to also come with reform to be politically viable.