I just want to live in the world I was promised as a kid growing up at the turn of the Millennium. 
Where countries can all prosper as peers, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt, and everyone is held to a high standard for politeness and conduct and everyone has enough free time and disposable income to be comfortable in their station in life. 

Codifying and expanding exploitation and not solving the underlying causes of economic difficulty won't get us there.

Almost all inflation in this country is caused by the huge demand for loans, and the fact that every branch of every bank has carte blanche to create new currency out of thin air to fund each of those loans. It's not all the government's fault, it's not all on the backs of the wealthy and it's not all because of the national debt. 

If people had enough money to afford everything they needed and could actually participate in voluntary commerce by also having ample free time, there would be no crises of debt, inflation or population. It's actually suboptimal for businesses to demand more hours out of their employees and pay them as little as possible for it. It suppresses commerce and stifles everything but the very top of the economy. 
The top of the economy is mostly impermeable, wealth doesn't leave it easily because the wealthy don't spend their money in the same places as the majority. They buy groceries from stores whose only purpose is to price out normal people, build their homes of imported materials, and choose foreign goods much more frequently than domestic ones in general, and they also buy services from dedicated companies which primarily serve the wealthy.

The idea that wealth trickles down works until you get to the strata of people who don't participate in the same society as the majority. If these people actually had a presence in a community like a store owner would in days past, they wouldn't be caught up in this impermeable level, because their business and personal reputation would be contingent on dealing fairly.

But once you got the Hearsts and Rockefellers and Morgans of the world, that stopped. 

It took deliberate action to undo some of that, but now we're back in a world where the same thing is happening again. The wealthiest only view the rest of the world as a statistical abstraction because they don't ever see the reality for themselves, and they idealize unhealthy things because the forms they take in their own bubble aren't that difficult to surmount or live with.