The thing that Americans in particular need to understand is how wealthy we really are compared to so many other people on this planet.
We have so far that we can fall into misery and poverty that we cannot really even begin to imagine it.
Look up Bangladeshi shipbreaking. That will be us, before long.
We are on the verge of a new Dark Ages, literally "the road to serfdom", forced into submission by a ruling class who idolizes the man who wrote the book by that name.