Not sure you could say everybody's broke anyways. It only appears that people are broke since most of it is concentrated at the top. A few trillion just sitting around doing nothing, and many trillions being flushed down the toilets

Under an Eisenhower tax code, the US would have a substantially more wealthy median citizen than ever before. There's more wealth than ever, it's just that the sociopaths who have it are busy convincing the proletariat to fight over the scraps