Perhaps it’s because we’ve all been walking around outraged? Tragically, the percentage of American adults who’ve reported having serious thoughts about suicide has spiked in recent years. And everyone’s always mad at each other.Īnd as the 5 o’clock news likes to remind us almost daily, we’re also battling a mental health crisis.Īgain, everything is “amazing”! But most people are not happy.No one can seem to do their job correctly. It’s as if everything is amazing, yet nothing ever works the way it’s supposed to.Communication is literally 100,000x cheaper than it was 100 years ago.īut simple things – like seeing a doctor or getting your car fixed or simply making more money for the lifestyle you want – are still so frustrating. Violent crime has dropped in half since the 1990s. Global incomes are higher… our lifespan is longer. So sure, in many ways our lives are better than at any other time in history, right? Meanwhile the benefits you DO get from Social Security have lost 30% of their purchasing power since 2000. A civil war!Īmericans of all ages are more frustrated and less motivated than ever before.Īnd you know what, it is hard to get up and go to work when the average Wall Street bonus has gone from $14,000 in 1985 to a whopping $257,000 last year.īecause while they’re raking it in – if you’re over the age of 50, you’re getting nickel and dimed by the very federal programs that promised you the retirement you worked so hard for. Late last year the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School published a poll that found half of voting age Americans under 30 thought our democracy was “in trouble” or “failing.”Ī third said they expected there to be “a civil war” within their lifetimes. It’s sex, race, faith, borders, bathrooms, babies. In 2019 business owners reported $402,000 in property losses due to riots and civil commotion.We’re angry enough to start fights on planes… to slap each other on live TV… to storm our houses of government… to loot and riot. In just the last year milk prices are up nearly 36%!Īnd egg prices have nearly doubled in just one year!īut it’s far more sinister than that, too, right? Just as we finally get the opportunity to dine out and travel again… we’re faced with $6 gasoline… record airline cancellations… and sky-high food prices. Something has been building inside Nicole and the rest of us for years… It’s what was really behind my co-passenger’s shove. To me, it’s a much, much bigger story than that. The mainstream media calls it, “The Great Resignation.” Have you been to a restaurant lately? Service everywhere has been awful. I’m leaving my job.”ġ in 5 health care workers are quitting… 55% of teachers want to… 94% of retailers say they’re having staffing problems. Or maybe you’re the 1 in 2 Americans saying, “Life’s too short. Perhaps you’re looking at your money – that’s worth less with each passing day – and saying, “I’ve delt with two economic crises in less than 15 years… a recession just two years ago… I’m so sick of this.” Now this? This was the year things were supposed to go back to normal! This isn’t the post-COVID euphoria we were promised!” On top of that, the whole world’s streaming a potential world war on their iPhone. If you have any weaknesses in your investments… the market is finding it. The stock market hits new highs one day only to crash the next. We’re facing our first simultaneous food and energy crisis since 1973. We’re sick of living through one “unprecedented” event after another… On a flight from Florida to Baltimore earlier this year, a woman physically shoved me because I pulled my mask down to take a sip of water.Īmericans everywhere are fed up. An unstoppable trend could create more wealth over the next few years than over the entire previous century, but only for a select few.
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