I get what you mean, but gas station clerks and the like are people too. And they are suffering. Why would you judge how worthy this country is by exclusively measuring the satisfaction of it's financially secure people? That doesn't make sense to me. We don't judge other countries by how happy and robust their middle and wealthy classes are exclusively.

I myself am comfortably middle class and yet I still see that dissatisfaction is growing among all social and economic classes that aren't property owning or financially stable. That's a lot of people in America, and we need them for our society to function. Are we going to just tune out their dissatisfaction and suffering? Seems a bit callous to me...

I don't think people worried or complaining about America's future are all whiny cynical teenagers.