A pervasive problem here is that there just aren't enough jobs for everybody. Or at least, not a job that pays well enough to consider. The educational system is lagging behind too, with not enough seats for the millions of young people who need it.

This is papered over by the fact that we have good economic growth rates. But, this is confusing the stock market for the economy. The rate of inequality is also steadily climbing with the percentage of wealth owned by billionaires only being second to Russia.