My thinking (as misguided as it may be) is that as wages are depressed and job opportunities become scarcer due to global competition, more and more Americans will become dependent on the government to survive. Hope and work ethic disappear. Society declines. Wealth is transferred to the Third World. Yes workers can retrain and gain more education for skills in demand. Technology may open new avenues to generate wealth. My problem is that I am stuck in the world with an Ozzie and Harriet mindset. I cannot imagine an America without a strong, traditional middle class.
I thought you were going that way. As I ponder the countries leftward slide I was thinking of the excesses of Sodom and how decadence destroys the faith of a city or nation. We are spoiled and Christians never read their bibles. Christianity is so weak it has almost no testimony left. Technology allows a small number of people to produce so much "stuff" that fewer and fewer people have to work to survive. The government just divides up the excess.