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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWith the turn of the century, however, this situation has worsened. We are living in a time of increasingly precarious wages, and every day more and more people, even with jobs, struggle to make ends meet comfortably. This creates stress and tension in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The once abundant middle class is shrinking, the poor are growing, and social polarization is increasing. Political parties on both sides are exploiting this to find scapegoats for the general dissatisfaction, while simultaneously seeking a foothold from which to launch their diatribes against their irreconcilable \u201cenemies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Business owners, the vast majority of whom are small and working themselves, receive scant support to grow and foster job creation. Politicians talk a big game about promoting entrepreneurship, but the reality is that they only know how to create obstacles and taxes for those who haven't yet escaped the entrepreneurial rut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a society increasingly trivialized by social media, more and more people are thinking less, believing they have every right with hardly any obligations, and are easily manipulated into extreme situations where they express their despair. This also contributes to the prevailing tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I hear talk of polarization and tension, almost no one discusses the causes, and for me, perhaps the most important is the disappearance of the middle class, which acted as a buffer against tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rise in poverty exacerbates all kinds of tensions and brings out the worst in us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trying to answer the title of my reflection: Where is the middle class headed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The answer could be: it's going down the drain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And as an old Spanish proverb says: everyone killed it, and it died alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will all pay the price, especially the most vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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