Fewer jobs, less opportunity. They have given up more freedom and opportunity and now depend on someone else to deliver the daily wants/needs. And as the Lady Thatcher paraphrased, ‘fun till you run out of someone else money’.
That’s their next problem, they’ve been fooled into believing the “Rich” haven’t pay enough while the government collected record revenues, and now the labor force participation rate is steadily declining, 80% of the economy now supports 100% of Democrat spending. See how long that last.
Entitlements purchased the 2012 election IMHO.
That will continue until the system implodes.