It's not just Americans. Aussies, Canuks, Britbongs, etc are all worse off than before COVID. That's because one aspect of the COVID scam was the largest wealth transfer from the poor and middle class to the ultra-rich corrupt oligarchs in all history. Something like $3Trillion dollars was effectively stolen from regular people and stuffed into the pockets of big banks, big pharma, etc. This was primarily done by money printing, where the newly printed money was given first to those selected individuals/corporations, allowing them to use it at it's previous value, thereby stealing the value from all present holders of no net debt. A jewy trick if ever there was one.