You can watch hour long lectures about this shit and you will never hear the word innovation. They don't even know where it comes from.
The answer to all our problems is freedom, not a cabal of boomers pushing and pulling the levers of the economy.
Spending doesn't create wealth. If you want to have a wealthy society you should encourage under-consumption and savings. When we save up resources (as individuals and as a society) we can invest in labor saving devices that make our work more efficient and this is how we increase our standard of living. Something that hasn't been done in 40 years now because the government is out of control drunken sailors and unironically most of them need to hang.
Your Grandpa didn't have to pay for all this shit and that is why he was rich:
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