"...But between the fancy cruises and fat pensions and gated communities and golf courses and vintage ‘57s Chevys, it’s not a world that younger Americans have any reason to expect. In fact, it sounds like something from a museum of postwar affluence..."
LOL! I was born in the late 40s. Never been on a cruise. I had a '61 Chevy in college, an oil-burning deathtrap. I've never played golf. I've never lived in a gated community. I retired from the Navy, where living was spartan. The author of this piece is a Liberal idiot.
"Well, this is a complicated one, and we’ll nod to the usual suspects: Globalization, technology, and the depletion of natural resources (especially energy) meant that the postwar boom would not last forever."
Wrong again. We have 300 years of coal and 500 years of oil/natural gas. The only depletion going on is in your head.