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[quote=Anonymous]Anyone feel this way?  I am struggling really hard to identify ways in which my life has gotten better in the US over the last 25 years. Everything just feels like it has gotten infinitely worse in my lifetime.

Healthcare is an absolute joke and trash in the US. Premiums skyrocket while the quality of sevice seems to constantly circle the proverbial toilet.  Trying to find a PCP is a maddening experience.  Then dealing with insurance companies trying to weasel out of paying for a procedure or who incessantly refuse to pay for drugs prescribed....totally exhausting.

Roads, tunnels, bridges, and infrastructure falling apart everywhere. We are supposed to be first world country, yet it takes months to fix a simple pothole, and people in Flint Michigan don't even have potable water.

Constant and oppressive gun violence.  It is so bad mass shootings barely crack the national media these days, because they're just routine life in America.

Insurance rates for everything else exploding. Astronomical housing costs. Out of control food prices.  Unaffordable education and childcare. $52,000 "family cars".  Just absurd.

Meanwhile, US is embroiled in yet another forever war costing $3B/day.  We don't have money to help our citizens afford healthcare premiums yet we have infinite dollars for shooting drones down 8000 miles away.  Now out country's reputation  on the world stage is utter trash and in the dumpster.  We are the bad guys in billions of peoples' eyes.  And we continue to blow up our national debt that's going to be so bad soon that the costs to simply service our debt will eat huge amounts of our budget for future generations.  Oh, and social security? Ha, good luck expecting to benefit from it in the future. They're gonna make us work until 79 before we are allowed to tap benefits.

And finally, everything seems to be ensh*ttified (ES) or on its way to being ES.  Our corporate overlords now tell us we aren't allowed to own anything.  Oh, you want to use the heat in your car? Pay a subscription.  Oh, you want to buy a phone?  Sign all of your privacy away.  Buy a fridge, dryer, or washer? ES now. Can't access their features unless ypu connect it to the internet and agree to have your home streamed with infinite ads on the main screen.

Jobs?  So unstable these days.  Oh you want a new job? That'll take 879 applications to get an interview. Every app requiring the use of AI to get around AI screeners. Every app asking for a resume but then asking on the next screen questions that are answerable with information from your resume and they want you to type it out all over again.

Ughh, the US is just broken.  Has anyone's life gotten better over the last two decades?  I'm just exhausted and done.  The entire country feels like a gigantic scam and hustle that benefits the few while those of us simply wanting to live a simple life are destroyed.

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