Migration seems like the logical next step. I am working toward moving somewhere like Portugal by 2032, where wages can actually pay for living costs and healthcare is taxpayer-funded. I'll gladly pay higher taxes if it means the government provides services and that allow people to survive. I already lose nearly 30% of my paycheck to taxes and get nothing but crumbling infrastructure, dangerous roads, and zero social safety nets in return.
Why stay when the system has become rigged against the working class, instead favoring corporations, executives and political elites in a manner unseen since the 1920s? We pay more for healthcare and education and receive worse outcomes than most OECD countries. Why stay when boomers tell us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps because they were able to mow lawns and pay for both college and a living space back in the day? Our wages in comparison to living costs and inflation are dog shit. And it gets worse every year. Millennials are the first generation expected to be worse off than their parents. That's an absolute joke, and why should Americans stay on the sinking ship?