The entire economy is propped up by the government. First through infinite money printing by the zionist international central banking cartel. Then by government gibsmedat programs, like SNAP. I just read that a third of grocery store revenue (Kroger, Randall's, HEB, Winn-Dixie, Ralph's, Walmart, Albertson's, Safeway, Aldi, and many others) comes from SNAP.
The only hope anyone can have is scrape together some measily savings and invest it in appreciating assets because the Fed can turn on the money printer and debase the currency at a moment's notice.
USA will be South Africa in 20 years.
Yeah, and unsurprisingly we are in an age of record financial fiddling as the Fed injects fake money into the economy every time the house of cards wobbles, and companies that just play with abstract numbers like Blackrock are the most powerful players in the country.
Financial speculation is what brought down the Japanese golden age. It creates nothing and makes a few sociopaths extremely rich at the risk of literally everyone else.
Also I didn't count a few sectors like self employment and agriculture, but adjusting for the number of illegals and H-1Bs it would be just as bad or worse as your ratio.
It's been a repeating pattern throughout many civilizations in the past. The Romans had the same issues with currency. How much of that was involved with speculation is unknown. Isaac Newton lost a ton of money on a speculation known as the South Seas bubble.