> How do you diagnose and turn off un-realistically high expectations in a healthy way? In the west we keep telling everyone we live in the best system ever de

> How do you diagnose and turn off un-realistically high expectations in a healthy way? In the west we keep telling everyone we live in the best system ever designed yet the bottom 50% see their conditions worsening day by day, salaries are stagnating for a good 50 years now, services are getting worse and worse, retirement age keeps getting higher, obesity and diabetes go up, more and more jobs feel like being a useless cog in a dying machine, big industries that made entire communities proud were delocalised long ago, & c. The list is almost infinite at this point The bottom line is that we can see our parents and grand parents had it better, which means the promise of the ever improving system is obviously broken, and with it goes the hope. Almost as if acquiring useless gadgets made in wherever it is the cheapest to make them for now isn't enough to inspire people...