Thoughts on Piddle-down economics.

I used to live next to Palo Alto and Atherton, Calif, where you could find houses worth several million dollars. So you know the gardeners were outside those homes, not inside. My experience of trickle down economics was that the uber rich owners did NOT want to pay for sewer upgrades, police, and fire services, but DEMANDED that the police show up as soon as they hung up the phone. When they wanted to update, landscape, or clean their homes, they hired contractors who'd buffer them from the undocumented laborers who did all the work. Meaning they were usually white. They were owners of electronics, later software, companies that didn't mind getting all sorts of tax breaks to build their fab plants. But when they got bigger, they had to please stockholders need for maximum profit by abandoning those fab plants, along with thousands of workers to move overseas. So farmland that disappeared under asphalt to build those facilities became wastelands almost overnight. And small businesses? They were usually the vendors and suppliers of various parts and services, like printers ( I worked for some) furniture companies, temp services, etc....who cares? Not them.
Greed wins, but only for the small band at the top. Now we have a party that continues to try to sell us the idea that if you kiss the asses of the uber rich, eventually they might pass something on you...sweet smell of success??