[rXoX]

The most interesting part of this is how indifferent people are to it. I live in Canada. We've had Food Banks for 35 years. When they started, there were a few "Oh that's too bad" editorials, then averybody just 'normalized' it. We started to see a homelessness problem back in the 90's, until it too became "normal", so that the citizenry simply assumed 'those people' had it coming to 'em. Now we've got a serious problem because middle-aged professionals can't afford housing and the accompanying news articles assigning blame to municipal governments, provinces and the federal government are everywhere you look - a classic case of hot-potato politics. But no one blames an electorate that did nothing, voted no differently, acted indifferently or simply sat around and let it happen because all the bad things were happening to people who, you know, 'probably brought it on themselves'.

And that's the problem. In the developed world, it's become habit forming for the electorate to watch as people at the edges of society and those on lower socio-economic rungs crumble away into 'irrelevance'. Or, as some would call them - the 'deplorable' class. I suspect it will take a another 2 decades before it become crystal clear that the winners are being winnowed down and the losers are looming larger and larger. We're seeing the first edge now, but it's only going to get bigger. And angrier.