I think there's a very good point to be made about general anti-social behavior and a handful of downwardly mobile elites that defend it (see: defense of shopli

I think there's a very good point to be made about general anti-social behavior and a handful of downwardly mobile elites that defend it (see: defense of shoplifting, turnstile jumping etc) but I see the opposite from the American perspective for the last two years alone. - The unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in 50 years, while inflation is ticking lower - The Dow is at 34k and this is considered "bad" because we hit Dow 36k last year. - Real GDP per capita is the highest it's ever been - We're meaningfully pushing the needle forward on Fusion, and abundant energy deployments like wind turbines and solar power installations are accelerating - Battery and semiconductor manufacturing is rapidly coming back onshore just within the last year - Machine Learning hit at inflection point with diffusion models and large transformers - We are involved in no wars and drew down our involvement in one - Cars are getting better and EV adoption is at an inflection point - The MRNA revolution is just beginning - Crime is ticking down from the highs of 2020 but is still lower than even the early 90's.