Golden age

It's possible but unlikely that I will see a return to a new golden age within my lifetime. That will be for my children. 

As one of the last of the boomers I took advantage of a long period of sustained relative prosperity with no wars or major depressions affecting where I lived. By 2008 that changed and we began to slowly plunge into where we are today. 

The gap between the rich and poor is at a high for my lifetime and the consequences are dire. The middle class, once healthy and industrious, has been hollowed out thanks to the usual greed and stupidity. The generation of my children will be less well off than mine was. 

This is of course not an accident.

We are ending a cycle which began in 1945 and will end hopefully without a major event which is what has usually happened.