Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse Blog,
How did we get to a point where nearly half of the entire population is struggling to even pay for the most basic necessities? A lot of people talk about "economic collapse" as something that will occur someday in the future. The truth is that "economic collapse" has been slowly happening for decades as the middle class has been systematically eviscerated. It now takes 5.3 million dollars to live the American Dream over the course of a lifetime. Who can afford that? Most Americans aren't even going to come close to making 5.3 million dollars during their working years. Of course in this economic environment, much of the population is just concerned with trying to survive from month to month. The cost of living crisis that has been raging for this entire decade is absolutely crushing millions upon millions of U.S. households, and now we just learned that the official inflation rate has gone up again.
If financial stress has become a major theme in your life, I want you to know that you are not alone.
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