Jon Lovett
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
In some sense, people did live, well, at least a more moral life, the version of the American dream that people had aspired to before seemed to, in some sense, return.
Values did adjust.
There was a different value set in that.
We didn't live up to it.
And a lot of people were kept outside of it, to be clear.
But it wasn't high-flying.
It was a more righteous version of America.
There was some truth to the idea that there was a version of
American capitalism without the high flying.
You should take that fucking, that is not true.
Don't say that here.
These are forts.
These are American, how dare you?
They are not better.
Yeah, my car squeaks a little.
Sorry, go on.
Along with globalization, you also had a shift towards regressive taxation.
You had deregulation.
You had a whole host of ways in which every policy seemed to be designed to make matters worse for the middle class.
And I agree.