While all you write is true, it was a time of economic opportunity and mobility, prior to “Greed is Good” and trickle down economics. Now we have an economic system dominated by very few and the American dream is disappearing in student debt, mass layoffs, Wall Street excess and narcissistic billionaires. Our healthcare system is broken an unaffordable, our life expectancy is declining, not to mention daily mass shootings or climate destruction. I appreciate your reflections but I believe they are a bit limited as we enter late-stage capitalism and younger people lose hope. Our generation had expectations that we would do better than our parents, that is now gone.