The 1890s were less prosperous.
Villages high in the Apennines are less prosperous than those of similar elevation in the Alps.
Jamaica and Guyana are less prosperous; but only Haiti ranks among the world's poorest.
As talented people adopt those priorities, America may become more humane, but it will be less prosperous.
Rebuilding mutual trust will be ever more difficult amid fears that such pain will continue and that the current generation entering the work force is likely to be less prosperous than its parents.
Yet, simultaneously, he chides Michelle Obama for encouraging women to become teachers and social workers instead of entering corporate America: "As talented people adopt these priorities, America may become more humane, but it will be less prosperous".
In today's world most of us are afraid that we will become redundant in this globalised economy or that our children's future will be less prosperous than our own.
Instead, everyone looked at it and said, why can't our generation be less prosperous and peaceful (and lecherous), and more like theirs, dying face down in the surf!
"Young Adult" is of a piece with Reitman's 2009 movie, "Up in the Air," in which George Clooney plays an arrogant executive whose job involves indifference to the fate of others (specifically, of those who are less prosperous, less powerful, less attractive).
Pence was polished and clearer, and he quickly assembled a simple case for his and his running mate's candidacy, arguing that the country was less prosperous and the world less secure than they'd been eight years ago, and that electing Hillary Clinton would mean keeping current policies in place.
