Although Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi, he had a lot of good common sense business and economic points. He made sure all of his employees could easily afford the cars they were building and it made an empire.

How did we get to this point where a large portion of the country somehow believes workers shouldn’t be able to afford to buy anything?

That is actually easy: They don’t think about the economy as a whole. They only look what might suit them best in this exact moment to increase „shareholder value“ for a short moment.

Here lies the contradiction of Capitalism.