middle class

“And in fact, the reason the labor force participation rate fell during the pandemic, even after the pandemic was over, was the benefits had spilled into the middle class.”

“If you're gonna replant your, the sort of commanding heights of your economy on knowledge work, then what you're gonna do is you're gonna slam basically all economic growth into the cities, right? Because you're, which is what Silicon Valley has done, right? S…”

“What happens is from a political standpoint is the cities that are run right there in, in, in, in their local democracies, it's these super high end kind of, you know, very progressive elites. And then it's sort of the clientele underclass. Right. That you kno…”

“In real wealth terms, like the middle class, working class are actually much wealthier, even than the better off middle class people back then.”