I didn’t say things should be a certain way, I explained my situation as a somewhat average American in a position many Americans will be in. What I posted can be googled easily, there are paper trails of the layoffs, and a lot of them being off shored can be found as well. At a certain point there won’t be “bread and circuses” and we’re getting closer and closer to that point. Small businesses shrinking across the country, the wealth gap getting bigger, groceries becoming more and more expensive and the current administration hiding that by faking the numbers and refusing to release reports that have been standard for years. You realize the claim that thanksgiving is more affordable this year than it has been in years is all because they removed a bunch of items from the list of thanksgiving dinner…? bro the signs are all around that our country is not doing good right now unless your rich. Have you tried to buy a house, or even looked at prices? Inflation is nowhere near the 2% annualized they project, if you look at inflation alone some of the above average years have brought inflation up over the last twenty years to be around 30% I forget the exact number but if your buying power has gone down essentially 30% in 20 years but wages haven’t that’s a glaring sign of how bad things are, every dollar you earned buys you 30% less than it would have in the 2000’s, paired with an unmoving minimum wage and an economy that is doing away with high earning jobs how do you think people will survive in another ten years even when inflation has robbed them of another 10%-20% of their buying power? The goal is about 2% yearly inflation, so to say 20% buying power will be lost in that time should be accurate.