As a young American, I can't help but to think that I will be spending a large portion of my adult life living in a down turn. There are many forces that will be coming into play that will eventually have a negative effect on my and my families standard of living:
-Artificial Intelligence
-Climate change
-Healthcare
-Immigrantion
-Wealth Inequality
-Housing
-Federal fiscal mismanagement
-Growing Anti intellectualism
-An economy more and more based on gambling, exploitation, and war.
-An Elite class that has more loyalty to their own global members than to the nations they come from.

And this list could go on and on. I know that it is common for someone living in any era to feel as if they are in the 'end times' or that the good times are already gone and history finds that they were mostly proven incorrect. Even knowing this, I look at the challenges of the future and I am at a loss as to what I should do to ensure I live a long and prosperous life. Have you read any books that could give some guidance in this regard? Or do you have an advice to give to someone with these anxieties?

>>24561481 (OP)
This list was relevant ten years ago, now some of these things are actively being fixed.

>>24561481 (OP)
Post-war Brit lit. The UKs been in decline for 80 years. We lead the world in decline. Americas only just embarking on that. They're children in the matter of decline. We've been doing it longer than anyone else. We rose earlier than any other country (with the exception of Holland perhaps), we had our revolution a century before the French and the Americans. We were further along, and we're further along in decline.

Biodynamic Gardening: Grow Healthy Plants and Amazing Produce with the Help of the Moon and Nature's Cycles (2015)

>>24561541
only the rest of britain, not london

>>24561589
London is a separate country.

>>24561541
>Post-war Brit lit
Are there any works or authors that you suggest to start with?

>>24561621
Here's a genuine recommendation from the heart: Kingsley Amis.
Though your OP really doesn't give me the idea you'll like him much. But maybe you will, some reading between the lines is involved (esp for yanks). The idea is: what's bad is bad, and not to be loved in order to make it tolerable; the horribleness of the truly horrible is to be relished for what it is. That's the only way to recover your authenticity.

>>24561481 (OP)
Greeks, Thucydides for example

>>24561621
Philip Larkin, William Trevor, Evelyn Waugh and some Graham Greene novels are essential /hangingoninquietdesperation/core

>>24561536
Actively being fixed?

>>24561773
Waugh wrote his best books in the 30s, but yeah
>Greene
argh