Piecemeal

We are once again destroying ourselves piecemeal. Every day I see people on the verge of destitution while others obtusely drive monstrous trucks they like to call SUVs. We are reliving the age of the "Robber Baron" because we aren't intelligent enough as a species to understand history.

So the lower classes try to stay afloat on stagnant wages that increasingly buy less goods while others regale in ostentatious and frivolous splendor.

In the 1950's North America was busy building itself a prosperous middle class with the extra rich and poor factions merely blips on the radar. Taxation was fair and with it infrastructure was built for the future cities which are now in decay and in desperate need of repair. The coffers to repair them are empty.

The denser baby boomers can complain all they like about youth work ethic but we had better prospects coming out of school than current graduates do and we could purchase homes at 2 to 3 times our yearly salaries instead of 6 to 8 times. We could also count on steady employment with some of us only having worked for one firm our entire careers.

Piecemeal.