True, but if you are caught in a fundamentally violent economic system that essentially dictates to you, “be profitable to someone else or suffer and risk destitution, homelessness, and even early death”, you join the other 99% in hustling for every dollar you can earn rather quickly.

Boomers frequently don’t understand this, having lived their most productive years in the most economically vibrant era of western civilization, where a minimum-wage job was able to let a single wage earner have a spouse and a few kids, a good roof over their heads, a car in the driveway and a vacation at least once a year, all the while having more than enough left over to save for retirement.

Those days are long gone, with even highly-educated DINK’s struggling and going homeless, and never having enough to even survive well, much less thrive and save for retirement.