Re: there's always
And because I piqued my own curiosity...
https://markbc.net/doomer-economic-commentary/is-the-us-government-really-spending-its-way-to-oblivion/
The real GDP per capita graph shown in the link is actually that it peaked in teh 1980s and is now back down to where it was in the 1960s. That's for US but probbaly similair in other western countries