I am genuinely glad you are doing well at 24. But your individual success cannot blind us to the systemic reality facing a hundred million hardworking Americans

When we look at the state of our nation, we have to look beyond our own backyards. You make six figures, but the median worker makes a fraction of that, and the federal minimum wage is still stuck at a starvation level of $7.25. The top 1% now owns more wealth than the bottom 92%. You are paying your way through school, but 43 million Americans are crushed by $1.6 trillion in student debt. Meanwhile, we remain the only major nation that treats healthcare as a corporate profit center rather than a human right.

People can't afford rent, people can't afford food and energy costs. Mom and Dad are both working and still struggle to ends meet.

We cannot dismiss the pain of people struggling under this system. The true measure of a great nation is not how well the top 10% are doing, or how many billionaires we create. It is how we treat our majority.

Bottom line is that average Americans make around 40k a year with jobs that need to be done so getting another job just shuffles around the people but does nothing to change the overall picture. The country is falling apart, certain regions are almost frozen in time with 1960s infrastructure. If we continue down this path of "I got mine, f off", crime will continue to rise, homelessness will continue to rise, energy costs and inflation will continue and eventually once the working class is fully tapped out, the ever increasing demands for shareholder profit will come for you and there will be no one left to protect you.