It wasn't a 'fluke' it was a direct result of the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's strikes and direct actions.
In the US in the 1930's there were 27,000 strikes, resulting in 200m hours of lost labor and about 90 deaths.
Nothing was ever handed on a plate, it has to be taken.
The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.