I don't know what exactly is being complained about in this thread. Technological change is providing vast benefits to mankind and creating a bigger, more competitive marketplace where we can buy increasingly better items for less. Sure, it also means that you have to make yourself more competitive, so... get an education. In something useful.
It's not like all the big corporations are colluding to suppress wages, either. Salary offers are strategic, and those companies that treat valuable employees well will perform better and be more competitive. If you feel you're being reamed by your boss, you should find a better company that knows they need to treat valuable employees well in order to succeed. If you can't find a company that wants to offer you a decent wage, it's your fault for not having any useful skills or knowledge. If your income has stagnated it's because you haven't acquired skills to differentiate yourself from the knowledge workers in the developing world.
Our social services are spotty because we have the third largest population on Earth governed by a lumbering, clamorous democracy. Show me a comparably sized democracy that has a better social delivery system. You can't. We're working on it. So our size and system of government have drawbacks, but it also means we have the rule of law, property rights, free speech, diversity, a huge marketplace where goods and people can move freely, and a relative openness to immigration. Of all the major advanced economies, ours has been the one to grow most consistently and most rapidly. Our problems are nothing compared to Europe's or Japan's. The efficacy of their social delivery systems is far better than ours, but their extravagant spending + anemic growth = massive debt. Yes, we have debt too, but our population is not graying and shrinking. Europe will not be creating enough young engineers and other skilled workers to maintain their centers of industry. Our immigration policies allow us to absorb some of the talent being created elsewhere, and those talented people are attracted to all those things I mentioned above.
Remember everyone, it's a LUV economy: Europe/Japan is the flat-lining L, the US is the slowly rebounding U, and the developing world is the rapidly rebounding V. Get a solid education, live below your means, and reap the benefits of living in the only already rich nation that can count on growth in the decades to come.