Stop listening to loser podcasters who want you to be depressed and angry and think "America is over." Get in the game, build something, contribute to your community. In many ways, it's never been a better time to be optimistic and high agency
This is a huge societal illness not enough people talk about. Men and women are supposed to work together and collaborate, not point fingers and "blame" each other for problems that in the vast majority of cases aren't even real (charts related)
There are degrowthers among us in America who would prefer we were like Southeast Asia and Europe (they will still have A/C of course, but you, normal citizen, will not)