We never stopped working hard; we simply failed to notice the yoke quietly settling on our shoulders. I say we because I include myself. For most of my life, I chalked up rising costs and shrinking savings to bad luck and poor planning, assuming that if people were struggling, they simply were not working hard. I never suspected the entire system was quietly draining our work.

— Neal Flesher, Modern Chains (Introduction)

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