30% growth

This barely exceeds inflation. Used cars are up 35%, electricity costs 18-55% depending on region, groceries up 28%. That “growth” you mention is only on paper, there’s no increased buying power behind it.

Regardless, you’d have to be a sociopath to say that a few people making more money (on paper, again) still qualifies a booming economy in the face of

• Child poverty rate +138%

• +11,000,000 kicked off Medicaid

• Record homelessness

• 60% living paycheck-to-paycheck

The only rational conclusion we can make from this is that the metrics we use to measure a booming economy are fundamentally broken.