The US's industrial world has been hollowed out, so there's literally far less things to do. Drive & ambitious besuits a nation doing things. But our nation has

The US's industrial world has been hollowed out, so there's literally far less things to do. Drive & ambitious besuits a nation doing things. But our nation has offshored a vast amount of what it used to do, & the cost of living & risk of starting small businesses stack up to a huge lack of opportunity. I love computers & coding, but it makes me so bloody sad how America is only good at "movies, micro-code, & pizza delivery". We have some other fronts for innovation & advanced works, huzzah, but we are so uncompetitive (given our absurd costs of living, adversarial legalism, & extremely acquisitive mega-corporations), that so much doing stuff, making stuff is inordinately hard to support. What id there to be ambitious & driven for in a world where so few have roles & jobs where they get to be a real & significant part of making stuff? That post-war post-depression era, of building a country anew was such fresh & wide opportunity, & that wont come again, but making a competitive internal economy with things to do, rather than a fistful of megacorps & nearly everyone somewhere deep deep deep down the org chart.... it's the choice between vitality & forever rot. Men wont get better under the prevailing economic dominance by juggernaut corporations using offshore labor. The new EV tax-credits being tied to onshore labor is interesting. But these are still micro scale incentives, an isolationist policy assuming sparseness. Creating a more open competitive economic competition at home, finding ways to tackle extreme cost of living crunches & supporting new ventures, enabling new industrial growth... there's much to do to heal & restore America to a place with things worth doing. This challenge isnt American; we all share making affordable life with things worth doing tennable.