The social strains of high unemployment – especially among young people – may force decisive change even before any fiscal meltdown. But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.
高失业，特别是年轻人高失业所造成的社会压力可能会迫使人们在财政彻底垮塌之前就做出决定性的变化。但进化的过程总比革命的剧变更容易接受，而且尽管真正的渐进性改革存在各种各样的困难，改革的前景也并非毫无希望。