IMO, we are in a K shaped economy. The ultra-rich aren't suffering from inflation as meanwhile, there are people who never fully recovered from 2008. So whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned Middle Class American Dream?
Key topics:
✔️ As a schoolkid in the 1980s Midwest, we heard it alllll the time: as long as you behave and work hard, you can be anything! You can be an astronaut, the President, a scientist who cures cancer. Later on, you're told that actually, no, not really and all that hopium is on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
✔️ "Just like everything else, those old crazy dreams just kinda came and went..."
✔️ Instead of the little house in the burbs with a white picket fence, is it now the 375 sf box home?
Links I discuss in this episode:
https://americansongwriter.com/billy-joel-allentown/
https://genius.com/John-mellencamp-pink-houses-lyrics
https://www.amazon.com/Squeezed-Families-Cant-Afford-America/dp/0062412264/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1661635970&sr=8-1
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