A good run (bubble) has disguised the longterm losing play

This started long before Bush, and before Clinton even. The economy has appeared healthy for most of the last couple decades because we've spent most of it in bubbles. Tech crashed, and as we went back to normal, unemployment was skyrocketing, but then we bubbled housing in response, yet that crashed, and the process of merely going back to normal pricing has shown that the economy is structurally high unemployment

As to the tomato thing, for the most part, increased productivity means decreased jobs. This can be mitigated if there were laws to determine the increase in productivity to be shared. The top earners of the last three decades have made more money than the entire history of the economy combined. The problem is that insane increase in productivity and profits is not being shared with the workers. Ironically, everybody tries to teach their kids the importance of sharing, but when it comes to modern royalty, sharing is just "punishing success"