80% US Poverty

80% Near Poverty

Some will dismiss this statistic as exaggerated, so let me add more perspective.  I work in a very popular and successful restaurant in Los Angeles, and MOST of my coworkers are juggling multiple jobs to survive.  Not a good sign.  If you don't feel it yet, pretty soon this global depression will affect you too, as automation continues to replace the monetary/labor system.  We are working harder, not smarter.  If you want to slave away the rest of your life in repetition, uncertainty, and fear, heading toward an ever-shrinking future, then keep doing whatever you're doing.  If not, then start learning about a resource-based economy, which is designed to enrich and work for us, instead of the other way around.