“And yet GDP is rising by an annual rate of 6.7 percent,”
No, it isn’t. It was knocked flat on it’s back for two years and it beginning to reopen. It is being pumped full of borrowed cash. That is not a “rise”.
A heroin addict feels good briefly when they get that badly needed hit.
I’ll tell ya why. I work in psychiatry.
No faith. 3/4 of the people I see have no belief in a higher power. Therefore, they are left unto themselves to deal with the misery in their lives.
Families are absolutely and have been fractured for decades. People don’t know their grandparents. They usually have one or both parents who have run off and left. It’s like a wasteland in terms of the relationships many people have with their families of origin.
People have been raised without any sort of moral compass. No moral code. The worse of the human soul and human condition rises up to fill the vacuum.
That’s why.
Good points.
Anyone can have good time and look prosperous using credit cards. It never ends well.