"For most of U.S. history, most people had a slow and steady wind at their back, a combination of economic forces that didn’t make life easy but gave many of us little pushes forward that allowed us to earn a bit more every year. Over a lifetime, it all added up to a better sort of life than the one we were born into. That wind seems to be dying for a lot of Americans. What the country will be like without it is not quite clear."
— “Making it in America” by Adam Davidson, as seen in The Atlantic. Nice to see the standard story of “manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have been cannibalized by productivity and now no one’s employed,” given some human faces both from the workforce and the ownership.
