Josh

Let's solve it.

Put me on the spot.

Well, I mean, I don't know, man.

It's not like this all over the world.

If you look in Europe, there is a middle class there, but it's not quite the same.

They aren't maybe don't have the kind of wealth that upper middle class does here.

But they have the income and quality isn't as great.

Generally, they have stronger social welfare programs.

Right.

Like the danger of.

of falling into desperate life straits isn't as great over there.

I saw a thing on Instagram recently.

It was an interview with a guy that was a, he had a good job.

You know, it was one of those stories where the guy was on the streets and he had a degree in chemistry and he had a good job.

And, you know, I read the comments because I was curious if people were going to be like bashing this dude or what.

And hearteningly, a lot of the people were like, hey, I worked in,

in shelters for the unhoused for years and we saw all kinds of people come through here yeah we saw doctors and attorneys and people you know uh that just you know sometimes you're a bad um circumstance or two away from that kind of situation and uh it's just not like that in europe generally speaking

I remember during the 2008 recession reading some statistic that something like at the time, like 40 percent or something like that of Americans were one paycheck away from being homeless.

Like that's how little savings and cushion that that most Americans had.

Yeah.