ah I guess I should have been clearer: I am friends with a lot of people - sure it's pretty bad in some states, but america is huge and nothing really changed for them within the decade.

I can't really speak for decades, none of us have been alive that long to live that difference - people generally live wealthier lives than 2 decades ago, at the cost of losing the ability to repair your own shit, being locked into buying new things when old ones work fine. but that's the failure of capitalism and legislation to subdue these issues.

What I am really trying to say is that I believe in time everything will be okay as long as we manage to survive the hardest challenge we have right now: AI causing major distruption in every single business causing further imbalance between people and coorperations.

> america is huge and nothing really changed for them within the decade.

People don't necessarily notice gradual changes. We have objective measures to show things have changed.

> I can't really speak for decades, none of us have been alive that long to live that difference

There's plenty of 50 and 60, even 70 year olds on this site...

> people generally live wealthier lives than 2 decades ago

Some people do. One of the biggest changes has been the continued erosion of the middle class.

> What I am really trying to say is that I believe in time everything will be okay as long as we manage to survive the hardest challenge we have right now: AI causing major distruption in every single business causing further imbalance between people and coorperations.

AI is nothing but a distraction. The problem is the ignorance of half the voting population who continually votes against their own interests out fear fueled by misinformation.