Michael Strain

We need to modify it and make it work better, but we don't need to start from scratch. And confidence that creative destruction creates as well as destroys and the dynamism ultimately makes us better off. And I think if we had more confidence in the future, the present would be better.

We need to modify it and make it work better, but we don't need to start from scratch. And confidence that creative destruction creates as well as destroys and the dynamism ultimately makes us better off. And I think if we had more confidence in the future, the present would be better.

The first is that the American dream is not dead. The second is that the central moral promise of capitalism holds. Hard work does pay off. People do see improvements in their economic outcomes and in their broader quality of life. America remains an upwardly mobile society. And the third is that people have agency and people can affect, for the better and for the worse, their economic outcomes.

The first is that the American dream is not dead. The second is that the central moral promise of capitalism holds. Hard work does pay off. People do see improvements in their economic outcomes and in their broader quality of life. America remains an upwardly mobile society. And the third is that people have agency and people can affect, for the better and for the worse, their economic outcomes.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you so much for having me.