A few years of economic growth will be spent just making good on the liabilities incurred in the process by the productive part of the economy.

Which means that even if we work well we'll feel poor - again, according to macro-statistics. It was already that way to a large extent for a majority of the population even though the macro statistics were looking good; now that things will be bad on aggregate, the question now will be the sharing of the pain during these bad times.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes