This study of the decline of the middle class and the failure of upward mobility in the US is worth watching.
"The days are coming when men will go mad, and when they meet a man who has kept his senses, will rise up against him, saying, 'You are mad, because you are not like us.' And I said, 'What can get us through such snares?' And then I heard a voice saying to me — humility.” Saint Anthony the Great, Abbot of Colzim Egypt, 251-356 AD