job market instability

Societies do not collapse by accident but through accumulation, when previously peripheral indicators converge toward a single breaking point. Any rigorous analysis must begin with the inner condition of individuals, because a nation cannot indefinitely conceal the exhaustion of its collective spirit. Gallup data reveals a historic shift: fewer than 30 percent of citizens now rate their mental health as excellent, while the combined category of “good or excellent” has fallen to 72 percent, a level never previously recorded. This trajectory demonstrates that, long before any visible institutional rupture, U.S. is collapsing under the Trump presidency in its most intimate…