I’m so glad you’re Jewish. I was expecting a wall of off-topic and bitter blather for and against religion. Now I’m just waiting for the jokes (and thanks for the starters).
If I got you right, you think the financial world is teetering on the brink of a cliff, or at least a ditch, and that a corrupt few are behind your inability to live larger.
That’s not my view. Take a look at recent posts here by myito. She seems moderately successful, like you, but seems to live at about the level of material wellbeing you want. She says she lives in a whole comfortable middle-class world where that’s normal. She made some investments 10 or 15 or 20 years ago, and they have done very well, as most investments did.
I’m a late baby boomer. My 4 siblings are older and all fit myito’s mold. They are all very comfortable, even though none was a star performer. The key was that they worked hard and saved a high % of their income and, most importantly, they bought assets cheap and early. There are many, many tens of millions of them out there in the US and Europe and Japan and elsewhere. It’s not a corrupt few. They’re neither (unusually) corrupt, nor few.
