Americans grew richer with every generation. Until the last decade.
Economist Peter St. Onge reports that half of young Americans are now living with their parents for economic reasons. Cars on the road have never ben older and now average 12 years of age.
One of the most important measures of human wellbeing is interior living space. Interior living space literally provides people with shelter, protection and defense from the elements. Houses grew in average square footage for two-and-a-half centuries But now houses are shrinking.
The American diet is going third world. High quality food, such as meat is being replaced with lower quality food, such as beans (and, now, apparently, bugs).
Even life expectancy is falling for almost a decade, breaking the 200 year trend.
