Americans continually refuse to learn one simple lesson: the individualistic GoFundMe approach to social provision of all kinds is simply unworkable because it's unscalable, It's like relying on charity finance to fund the Manhattan Project.

The whole decrepit, improvised one-off system of social provision was workable as the New Deal. But it was dismantled by Reagan, Bush and Clinton and is now hitting the wall of the Great Resignation response to predatory turbocapitalism, illustrating this simple aphorism: "capitalism saws off the tree branch which it sits." (EJ Hobsbawm).

I'm one of 8m Americans living abroad. The number will only go up as more Americans realize they can work remotely for an American company and live with overseas' living costs--simple geographic arbitrage. For example, live rich in Kyiv or Plovdiv on $1200/month while tutoring American high school kids. Riga's already expensive: $1500-2000/month to be upper middle class and take all the taxis you want to the beach in Jurmala. My health insurance costs $350/year.

But because Americans suffer from a terminal case of narcissistic nationalist not-invented-here syndrome, this trend will not reverse. Just look at the single coal mine owning senator blocking all the greentech investments needed to avoid a terminal climate crisis. When a few theocratic fossil-fueled rural voters in the rotten borough of W.VA.can veto any change at all, you know the system has hit a wall.