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If average Americans of even 30 to 40 years ago could see us today, they’d think we were all spoiled just as rotten as any young Trump, Newhouse, or Bloomberg.

There’s a good point here. The expectations for living of the general population just keep getting higher. Is there any end in sight? Eventually the Holy Roman Empire crumbled at the peak of its excess. Even if people studied and understood history and cycles, is there anything that could be done to stop it? If we’re not in for a rude awakening, it could be our children, or our children’s children.

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