> 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.