The natural wonders like Yosemite are great. The Entrepreneurs who solve real problems and engineer solutions are great. But the US is filled with more than enough Tax consumers than Tax payers. Being a corporate robot working as an employee that followed the College scam and now has huge student loan debt, well, so sorry. Or a Government Employee. You are overhead.
I look at the US culture from a distance, and compare it to other cultures I travel to see. Unfortuately, mass media and American Fast Food chains and TV adversely effects countries outside the US.
The US culture is horrible in some respects. The new Fem boy clothing I see. Since when do Men wear pastel colors or pink pants?
#MeToo, what is that? Look at Movies and TV filled with violence. The escapism of drug use and huge obesity problem. Prozac nation. Too many People that have no honor, decency, respect. A hand shake and when some ones word was their bond, where did it go?. Too many Americans are spoiled and have become narcissistic attention whores addicted to posting selfies on Facebook. Or collecting friends or followers on social media. Or vanity, all the fake breasts, botox lips and other nonsense?
Now tech companies exploit people’s ignorace of privacy and have no moral compass. Then this Ocasio “Free stuff” entitled generation. The insipid celebrity worship of Kardashians.
American People used to believe in being a waiter was a profession, pre 1970’s. In other parts of the world it still is!. People valued trade jobs then as well. Even house painters and plumbers. How many millineals would do that manual labor work now? Where I spend my time, I can walk down and get my shoes repaired, buy fresh organic fruit from a farmer. It feels like 50’s-60’s sometimes.
Think about this “Great” when applied to products. Before the disposable, waste producing economy arrived. Examples like consumer products: What year American cars are most sought after for collectors? 65-66 Mustangs, 69’ Chevy Nova, Chevelle, Camaro, Impala and other model Muscle cars. Guitars? Gibson and Fender Pre 1968. Maytag Washers were quality that actually lasted 20 years. RCA console TV sets. McIntosh Tube stereos. Music: Classic Rock bands music from 60-70’s lives on and studied still today. What product from 1980’s does anybody really care about? I cant think of any American car model, nor guitar. Sure 80’s music seems to have lived on for some... does anyone care about an Atari 800, PCJr, etc? Old video games? Sure a few nostalgia people might buy a Pong console. What about iPhone 3? Not a classic, Instead of being classic, Apple wants you dispose of it. Or even a 4, 5 or 6. Its a disgusting scam, a planned obsolescence based, throwaway economy. The irony is the same silicon valley assholes that complain about climate change are polluting it with obsolete electronic waste.
Coke used to be in glass recycled bottles and tasted good because it had real sugar, not corn syrup. Glass, It exists still btw, outside the US. Now in the US everything is plastic, polluting the planet.
The younger generation needs to be motivated to be creative and self sufficient. Not become an employee, but be responsible for your own destiny. Have Motivation to create, design, engineer, work long hours. Add value. Be versatile and do many jobs and hobbies, travel and appreciate other cultures.
