Reply #14: when lots of white middle class people start getting poor

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....then that is what will happen.

I think one reason it has not yet happened is that technology has made basic foodstuffs so cheap that sober people can come up with enough money to stay alive as long as they have housing.

Where we are losing ground is not food, but in quality of life, mainly because of deterioration of the workplace and loss or laggin of healthcare quality.