Not sure if your comment was even meant for me? Or you clearly didn’t understand my meaning in what I wrote.
Every depression/recession has resulted in the next generation providing some new innovation of significant nature to propel the United States and eventually the world to better life.
The educational system we have now is so riddled with liberal/progressive over concerns...that next generation of dreamers, seekers, and innovators has been lost. Malaise, economic malaise is our destiny for the next generation or longer....
I nominate gay marrage and microaggressions.
The country never had to go up against this big of a regulatory wall with respect to innovating, in its history. That of course includes the doctrinarian shift in education, but also in society.