Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

Ben Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Prof G Markets · Why Americans Earning $500K a Year Still Feel Broke · 6 May 2026 podcast

And I think that shock to the system that we had, it's like, oh my gosh, this thing that we thought this only happened in history books,

I think it's actually a sign of progress that we're, like luxuries have become necessities to us.

And we are, I don't want to say we're more pampered than the past, but things are a little easier for us than they were for previous generations.

And I think that shock to the system was something that we as a society were not equipped to deal with.

And now we're seeing the ramifications of that, that it's completely changed the sentiment readings and thrown them off so much that it's hard to trust them anymore.

I think it's really hard to avoid the fire hose of negativity these days.

And I'm personally a glass is that full person.

And it's hard to be optimistic when there's so much negativity that surrounds everything these days.

And part of it is everything is politicized and there's politics and there's social media and all these things.

And I just, I'm not sure that our brains have evolved enough to deal with

I don't think enough people have a filter in place to know what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I think that's really, really hard on your psyche when you're constantly just bombarded with all the bad stuff that happens.

In the past, bad stuff happened all the time too, but people didn't hear about it on a 24-7 basis with alerts from their phones all the time.

Yeah.

So piggybacking on that, in our own community, they're talking about having smaller classroom sizes and even having some layoffs at our local schools.

We live in a pretty good school system.

And I was asking the question, why is it that enrollment is down so much?

Is it just a demographic problem?

They say, no, people can't afford to live in this area anymore.

And families who used to live here to fill the schools are not able to do that anymore.

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