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Is absurd that we essentially have a regressive income tax. I also wouldn't ignore the global environment during that period.

During those decades, the US was effectively the only industrialized nation in the world. Everyone else either never had factories to begin with, or had smoldering piles of rubble where their factories used to be.

This lack of trust is literally the main goal of mass media, especially right wing media. When everyone else is your enemy, you won't work together with them for your own benefit. Instead, you'll trust the strongman to keep you safe from all the fake danger.

Social media accelerated this by an incredible amount. Today's America feels like a completely different society from the one I grew up in the 90s.

The only time I found a wallet I returned it to the owner. The owner was suspicious as fuck towards me and treated me like I had stolen it even though everything was still in it. I literally picked it up off the ground, looked at the drivers license, and headed inside the store to see if they could page him and ran into him on the way in. The people I told about it were all pissed towards me for actually returning it and not just stealing the money.. It was basically unanimous that I was wrong for doing this and some of these people were friends I thought were good people up until that point. It really fucked up my faith in other people. Next time I'll just leave it be.

There was a time when I was a student that I spent a lot of time near a particular coffee shop, and more than you would typically expect for just studying and the like, since it turned into the place where my friend group basically hung out most of the time.
In any case, it was a decently high traffic area and since I was there a lot I found two wallets and a cellphone over the time I was there a lot.

One wallet had an emergency contact I was able to call, think it was their mother, and that I'd be at the coffee shop for a bit. They brought me cookies, and I was thrilled.
Next person just had their phone number, and they acted like I was a creep for saying I had their wallet and would like to give it back to them, so I told them I was leaving it with the cashier and left it at that and was a bit sad, since being told off for trying to be nice is a bummer.
Cellphone was the worst. I called their most recent number and told them what was up (this was clearly before ubiquitous lock screens). Owner called me back in the same number and threatened to call the cops on me so I hung up, powered off the phone and put it back where I found it. Felt sad.

Given how it seems like everyone has lost their minds now, I'm not sure I would risk letting someone know I found their stuff. I'd still try to return it because that's the right thing to do, but I'm not sure if I'd be willing to use my own phone number or anything.
If people will shoot you for using their driveway to turn around I can only imagine what they'd do for a bus pass, student ID and a loyalty punch card for a bakery.

And the part with dropping a found wallet with the police. We all know they're going to do fuck all to find the owner.

Have you ever been the person who was kind enough to return a lost wallet? Have you also ever been the person who was accused by the person you returned it to of stealing a bunch of things (like cash) out of the wallet?

You're saying something. I've heard first hand stories about angry wallet owners "shooting the messanger" so to speak. I'm from Germany but the saying "No good deed goes unpunished" rings true in most parts of the world, I think. That's why you throw a lost wallet into the next letter box and don't bother any further. At least that's what you're supposed to do where I'm from and I doubt any of those wallets ever arrived with their full content but that's not my problem.

To be fair, a non-insignificant amount of the men under thirty think things are so bad because the Nazis aren't taking over fast enough.

Also your minimum wage is shit for a “first” world country. $7.25?

I am in my mid 20s and Gen Z. Most under 30s are Gen Z now.

Is it that clear? What is the problem and what would be your aproach to a solution?

It is normal for older people to be jaded. Having the young, idealistic age start out life jaded and miserable really drags the average down.

Well over 30.

I'm 95% certain our quality of life is going to degrade for the remainder of our lives in this country.

I'm not even going out of my way to be pessimistic. I've been alive for a while now and all the signs point to this being our future.

And it was all easily avoidable with even just a little common sense and critical thinking skills from average Americans.

Needless to say, I'm not really a fan of humans anymore. We're pretty stupid animals.

Yeah I don't know who these over 30 happy people are. The pres just said he plans to rendition citizens to a foreign prison anytime he reasons they did something to warrant it. My brother with kids is super worried. I don't have kids but still not likin it.

I'll be real, it really bugs the shit out of me that the affluent would rather just bail to Europe and leave the most vulnerable of us behind. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As long as they personally can escape somewhere safer, they don't give one single fucking shit about what happens to their less fortunate fellow countrymen. Not all poors are Trumpers. Some of us got fucked by *checks notes... cancer drugs that cost $18k a month. Ask me how I know.

I sneer and look down on every single one of those "talented and smart Americans" who leave their talented, smart, empathetic, and fucked by the economic system of the US brethren behind to rot.

I'm here to assure you that we're not. The only ones who are happy are boomers who lucked into an impossibly good economy that will never return. They amassed wealth and think it's because they worked hard while in conditions that only existed because multiple economies were destroyed by war while USA was untouched. And now they continue to hoard power in government and refuse to let younger generations have a seat at the table. Fuck them.