In reply to Aesop.

Heh. I think that you’re being too pessimistic, but ask me again tomorrow and I might agree with you that it’s too late.

Agreed that a major shakeup sooner would be better than one later. If it happens today, we’ll have enough (older) people around who remember a society in which trust was merited and rewarded. Twenty years from now, who knows. The US population will be almost entirely people who might as well have grown up in Beijing or Calcutta. (And will be 50% immigrants or the children of immigrants, a different problem but which reinforces the problem at hand.)

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