Article should have a (2016).<p>The author certainly isn't wrong. As a country, we've squandered an astounding amount of resources in the last 70 years. Since we hooked ourselves in the suburban experiment, we've gone broke. And along with the background hum of accumulating public debt, we've gone crazy with private debt to fuel our out-of-control growth Bonanza. Whenever we run out of qualified borrowers, we always kick the can down the road once more by lowering standards.<p>Subprime mortgages. 84 month car loans. Enormous, nearly inescapable loans to kids who have no idea what they're doing.<p>As someone in the final group, I'm torn between wanting the madness to end on one hand; and hoping it doesn't end quite yet, so I can get out from underneath my debt before there are no jobs with which to even repay my loans.<p>Pair the loan payments with the rents paid to companies with their homogeneous, extractive shitbox apartments -- I hope no one was expecting the new generation of highly-educated workers to get the economy working properly again...