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Unfortunately, I don't see any of these issues being substantively addressed under Biden, even if we were to take the House and Senate, though I very much hope to be wrong.
A frank lesson about American political-judgement was just shown in this last presidential election. Nearly half the voters voted for a Mentally Sick Billionaire who thinks the election was manipulated against him and that he need only wait four more years to get reelected.
The most dangerous problem in the US is -and has been for quite some time - its Acute Income Disparity. And we blithely elect millionaires to run the country:
Such is our endemic National Delusion:
*That the acquisition of millions if not billions of dollars by a very tiny percentage of the Total Population is both correct and natural.
*And that distribution of Income is of no real consequence to the well-being of the nation as a whole.
Both of the above are sophomoric attitudes. Both are momentous self-delusions of a country unwilling to consider the dangerous economic-path it has decided to follow ...
The answer to the question posed in the tittle is amply considered and answered in this OECD pdf-document here. It's a very long but interesting read.
PS: Let's not forget. It was Communism that taught us "equality of Income" was NOT the right solution. But we still need to learn that Excessive Accumulation of Wealth is NOT either the best outcome!