America is running on fumes
If the author of this believes what they wrote then I feel sorry for them, they&#x27;re seeing the worst in a good situation and they&#x27;re substantiating it with an opinion piece that&#x27;s purported as scientific. Ironically the paper quoted in this article is a victim, or maybe a symptom of the citation issue it points out.<p>You don&#x27;t need to be a genius to see the innovations of the last 5-20 years however they are so much more complex that they&#x27;re harder to understand. It&#x27;s a LOT harder to explain Amazon (the global teleportation of goods and services) then it is to explain electricity.