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In reply to the discussion: Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 15: No Millennial Left Behind? [View all]appalachiablue
(41,131 posts)they leave as many are already doing. Most have had second properties in foreign counties for years. With everything global now, it's a fluid, mobile world for the 1% with plenty of resources.
Not so for regular folks restricted to place by limited funds and options, declining opportunities and resources. And our government is corrupted and mostly powerless right now. The obvious, ugly reality. I feel for younger people, the poor, and others who have little recourse.
It's been 35 years of complete butchery of the most successful economic and social system of representative democracy in modern times. We produced the largest middle class the world has ever known, peaking 1945-1985 after centuries of strife and progress. Decimated in the pursuit of profit, greed and self interest. Horror.