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A lot of our so-called "rights" simply express the fact that we have money.
Can we drive a car? Yes, because it costs money and we have that money. Can we go to school? Yes, again, because it costs money and we have that money. Can we go on holidays to a foreign country? Yes, again, because it costs money and we have money. Same for lots of other things.
The people have money because companies need to pay them if they want people to work at their companies. That's what gives people power. The fact that they are needed in the economy. No kind of law is causing this; simple necessity is.
It's the collapsing labor market that is causing a seeming decline in our rights. It's not Trump's fault (well, also trump's fault, since he made it much worse, but the issue started years earlier) that people are experiencing hardships, because of the collapsing labor market.
The solution would be to accept that the labor market is collapsing (because very few things can be done against that) and start accepting people for being people, independent of how much work they perform. In other words, stop glorifying "hard workers" and start seeing the value in people themselves.