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Josh

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Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Or having having to make, you know.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Health care decisions like that aren't good for your life because you can't afford it because it will bankrupt your family.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

You're having to put yourself and your family in peril physically.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

That's part of that.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Why the European middle class is much more secure because most of them have universal health care.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

They're not bankrupted by a diagnosis.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

But even even on more day to day pedestrian stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

So the lower income you are, the more inflation affects you.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Where like if you're higher income and you go gas up your car and you're like, wow, gas went up 20 cents today.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

That sucks.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

And you just don't think about it from that point on.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

If you're lower income, you might roll up to the gas station and be like, oh, I can't afford to drive my car to work today because gas went up 20 cents a gallon.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

So that's another issue with the whole thing, too.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

It makes it tougher to get ahead when you can't afford the basic necessities because they're growing out of your reach day by day.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

Yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

I mean, when I was a snot-nosed, know-it-all college kid working at Golden Pantry in Athens, Georgia, I used to โ€“ and, you know, I was working at Golden Pantry, so it's not like I was making any kind of money.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

But for a college kid, it was like, hey, it was great.

Stuff You Should Know
The Middle Class: Canary in the Gold Mine?

I had everything I need making that $7 an hour or whatever because my parents were generally paying for my education, and it's like easy street.