It's stunning how many people seem to forget that there are other countries on the planet that use dollars and weren't involved in Vietnam. No, I'm not making an assumption. The person who posted this is Canadian.
Y'all really need to take a step back and reflect a little bit.
Honestly, when people say that I think they're referring to the financial system. in the age of surveillance capitalism. and the predatory environments that we live in, there is no protection against corporations from scamming you and nickling diming you from every direction to the point where you're left with nothing and you are wander on the streets. Decades of not allowing people to repair their own things and following the rule of the lowest common denominator, we are left with a very generic throwaway society. that doesn't value human skill set, which leaves us all in a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. It's not that people can't take care of themselves. It's just they're not allowed to, unless the billionaire can get between you and what you need. It seems we are revisiting the 20s and 30s, but only the technofascist version. This is just a continuation of the boom and bust cycle with different flavor.