The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine Published: February 9, 2021 Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. I've been covering the decline of America's middle class for over a decade with charts, data and commentary on the social depression that has accompanied the decline. While there are many mutually reinforcing dynamics in this 45-year decline--demographics, global energy costs, financialization and globalization, to name a few-- one term describes the accelerating erosion of America's middle class: decapitalization. labor (wages) and