Yes.
I see America — throughout most of its history — as a nation for the middle class. Yeoman farmers at the start, then small business owners. The business of America is business. The American Dream is to own a home and eventually retire with some decent level of savings.
But we are heading for a Medieval world of Lords and Peasants. California seems to be leading the way on this. No room for the middle class — those people think too much.
I think even the retirement ideal doesn’t have to be viewed as that. To me, what other people would call “retire” would be “to change careers again.”
I won’t be able to do everything I did as a spring chicken, and I do not need to.