(median income) / (cost of living) is in decline. It really is the same story, as we would expect it to be. The citizens were replaced by slaves. The middle cl

(median income) / (cost of living) is in decline. It really is the same story, as we would expect it to be. The citizens were replaced by slaves. The middle class was eviscerated. There was no one left to buy the products of slavery. No one left to fill the military ranks. Slaves, petty lords, and starving Romans obviously makes for social instability. In the modern west, every job that could be outsourced to actual slaves has been done. Some jobs cannot be outsourced, like mining say, so now they're shipping the slaves here. Birth rates are set to plummet because most of the citizens can't even afford to live. It's like hunting all the Buffalo to extinction until there's nothing left to eat. That's what the owning class is doing. There's no way to stop it because it's a Darwinian system. The owners who are willing to ultimately cannibalize their own economy will win.