This requires an affluent population and a functioning society.

I spent over thirty years living in New York City. Things were generally great for me, but became increasingly miserable for people in general.

Two of my friends, perhaps three, died on the street in New York City. (The uncertainty is because I haven't heard from the third guy, homeless and with serious mental health issues, since February.)

"Innovation" has for the last fifty years meant, "A faster way to turn the world's resources into waste." "Innovation" will not save the USA.