The largest, biggest (not trying to use Don words

) Is the shrinking availability of income.
Why have we arrived at the place we have? Because of cheap goods. It was all well and good in the beginning...when everyone went wow, that is so cheap. Not realizing it would cause a gradual decline in income, and eventually the ability to afford products locally made.
More and more western governments are called upon to spend billions they don't have...Why? Because humans in another place work for peanuts or nothing to feed our greed.
The French have been forthright in recent times, just yesterday, or the day before, pointing the finger at the world supplier...China. As to why goods have been so affordable. Cheap labour. We've all know this, it's not a secret.
Yes, the the CCP don't like it. But, it's true. 300 million immigrant workers, along with the enforced "retraining" camps for the Uyghers. Yet we have all turned a blind eye.
Now because of the rise of the middle class in China in wealth...the strings, the ties, the twine which has held it all together for the rise of an Empire, are slowly beginning to unravel............The CCP are becoming bullies, scared... because the corruption and trade in human slavery is being exposed. As it should be, and for those who have used it for their own gain.