I think a statistic I saw recently was that nearly 50% of American consumer spending is attributed to the top 10% of consumers.

Which would largely indicate that it doesn’t matter because those who have the money will continue to spend it and those that don’t will continue to get poorer.

The end for this country really got accelerated about 10 years ago, it’s all momentum wince then.

The US has a LOT of inertia, but dammit if it’s corruption isn’t doing everything it can to find new brakes.

Sounds like pretty much every software project I’ve ever worked on