I've become a huge fan of your style of cynicism.Whoa man. I really disagree.
We're going into an era that's going to be dominated by tech, specifically AI.
Outside of physically building stuff, there won't be a future employment structure for most of the white collar jobs that exist today. The have and have not are going to greatly widen. Trading daily labor for wages will be considered archaic
You either have capital or not. Those that do will get very rich. Those that don't are going to be continuing to fight for less and less scraps.
There's no special sauce about America. We had massive advantages that resulted from the outcome of WW2. An industrial base that's the wasn't destroyed, etc.... We've lived off of that a long time. That's coming to an end