Mechele Dickerson

We don't care about poor people in here.

And then I had to stop myself and say, no, no, no.

I mean, I do care about poor people.

That's not the focus of this class.

And then I realized that my emphasis in teaching and also in the book is education.

The goal in this country has always been to take people from being poor to being middle income.

upward mobility is wired into the DNA of people in this country.

So though I am focusing mostly on the middle class, I need us to be sure that we're doing things to help poor people to become somewhat financially stable, because without that, they can't become middle class.

And looping back to a comment that you made earlier,

Everybody wants to be middle class.

It's the norm.

It's viewed as, you know, sort of apple pie and mom and America and the national anthem.

Given that, I think we need to say, let's focus on the middle class because people who are poor are aspiring to be middle class.

Billionaires.

billionaires that control Amazon.

It is in their best interest to keep Amazon, to keep the people that drive Amazon trucks employed by DSPs and not employed by Amazon.

So delivery service providers, right?

Yep, yep, yep.

It is in the best interest of billionaires to be able to eliminate jobs and to automate jobs and to have favorable tax credits for being innovative, but not be forced to do anything for the human beings that you have now caused to lose their jobs.

So again, if the lower income people that want to become middle class,