As a child in the middle class, there was a widespread sense of progress and opportunity in life ahead. If you were a good person, and followed the Way: study hard, stay on the good side of the law, get a degree from a respectable college, ..., then the good life was waiting for you: land, house, career, stability, recreation, community, romance, health, etc. After all, this is America, the greatest nation ever with the greatest kind of government ever. And! through the glory that is science and invention, the intellectual giants of today are the peons of tomorrow&#x27;s intellectual giants, you <i>just wait</i> because it&#x27;s going to be <i>awesome</i>. Your middle class existence now won&#x27;t even compare to your life in the future, because you can&#x27;t even imagine what will be in play. (Remember, I was a kid.)<p>Well, decades later, by so many measures, many things are pretty amazing, <i>if</i> you are wealthy or are willing to live as an ascetic and are smart enough to be in a field that at least <i>somewhat</i> resembles its former self&#x27;s wages. Modern computing devices, building materials, medicine, tools, educational resource availability, and international travel &amp; communication are here, and they are <i>great</i>!<p>Soon, even the automation of truly tedious, mind-crushingly boring and dangerous but needed tasks that are non-trivial, like driving, will be accomplished. (all the people who have staked their lives on this work whom are no longer needed, please, just don&#x27;t look at them, they&#x27;ll figure it out. No problem, Okay?)<p>Where is all the wealth? Where is the growing middle class? Where are the new cities? Where is the new infrastructure? Where is the game-changing innovation, lifting humanity and life on Earth higher and higher, spawned from the vast business landscape, fomenting living centers all across the nation, an America of <i>much</i> greater population size and no obesity epidemic? Where is the efficiency?<p>You want a home? You&#x27;re ready to contribute to society, you&#x27;re smart, you&#x27;re burning to make your mark and <i>live</i>? Well, you didn&#x27;t do it right, so do it right this time and save and be smart and someday you&#x27;ll be able to afford a home next to a job. A place to grow a family in, in safety and stability. Maybe you&#x27;ll still be living in your parent&#x27;s home when they die of old age.