Paul, you're only 41. I'm a lot older than you. I've spent 40 years trying to fix this broken down rotted house and things have only gotten worse in that time period no matter how much effort is put into it. It's a delusion to think this can be fixed using the method of repairs because the repair method has been the way it has been done for a century now and things continue to fall apart and many repairs lead to worsening the fundamental underlying problems, or not addressing them. The house needs to be rebuilt from scratch. It won't be though.

For the young, I recommend resettlement in a more sane region.

For the old, hope that collapse doesn't happen and wipe out savings and impoverishment.

For those in between, nothing really. They are stuck with their car and unable to move to a new one so they hold on to the hope that the next car repair is somehow going to be the last one and the car will at last work as if new and functional.

When a wiser older person cautions a younger one, offering life or career perspective, they always respond by contemptuously telling that wiser older person they are a moron and should piss off because "adults are working here". It's how things are and how they have been. Everyone has to learn their lessons on their own, and in the end recognize their personal failures only when it is far too late, and at that point they try to warn the next generations, and are called old fools. The cycle of life, which is based on delusions and cult adherance.