Mechele Dickerson

And if the middle class folks who would like to remain middle class for the rest of their lives looked up economically and said, those are the problems, rather than looking around at each other and saying, well, because that person is of a different race or that person is a different ethnicity, they are the problem.

I think we could actually work on some solutions here.

I think it would work for all industries if, again, we work from the premise that we would like to have happy, healthy workers.

So you don't need to build a community, but you could commit, for example, that whatever the top workers earn won't be larger than a fill-in-the-blanks multiple of what the poorest workers earn.

Right.

Yeah, and I am a Costco member.

I will always be a Costco member.

When I go into Costco, these are the happiest employees you will ever see.

I took my children now, we're 22 and 25, and they're boys, so they would eat everything that wasn't nailed down.

We'd go into Costco and get those samples.

They have gone back now as adults.

and have seen some of the same employees that used to allow them to raid the samples when they were children.

So it can work.

It definitely can work.

I would say that your constituents, the people that support you are struggling.

They are not struggling because of race issues and class issues.

They are struggling because they don't know how they're gonna pay their bills at the end of this month.

So if you want these people to continue to support you, you're going to have to figure out a way not to just say they're doing okay,

but to actually help them to do okay.

He will not be able to continue to tell people that the affordability issue is a hoax because at the end of every month, when people don't have enough to pay their bills for that month, they know it's not a hoax because they're living it.