These are precisely my thoughts, too. I try to keep myself from falling prey to the ultimate human indulgence of claiming to live in some kind of moral decline

These are precisely my thoughts, too. I try to keep myself from falling prey to the ultimate human indulgence of claiming to live in some kind of moral decline preceding some end times, but this is exactly the kind of thing that scares the shit out of me. Once people are paying 40% or 50% of their income to rents because they have no choice, what comes next? Combined with all of the enormous consumer debt...