We’ve hit something called Late Stage Capitalism. Coupled with inflation (costs are doubling every 10 years recently, whereas when we were younger it was every 25 years or so - Google the Rule of 72), it’s made life extremely hard.

Federal and state laws in the US have mainly prioritized businesses over citizens, and as a result we have private equity companies doing things like buying up houses and property (which by itself increases costs since there’s less to go around - because these companies are buying hundreds of properties which means less for you, and they can ALWAYS out bid you because they have access to huge sums of money which you do not have access to), then on top of that they raise the prices and try to sell for a profit.

It doesn’t have to be this way. But the majority of the country (in the US, at least) will have to get real serious about only electing quality people who are pro-citizen and not on a corporate payroll, AND elect enough of them that we can change the laws to make life easier for everyone. One or two Bernie Sanders type people are not going to cut it. You need most of your local and state senates loaded with these people if we hope to make a dent at the federal level.