This was a 10 minute discussion panel that came to the insight conclusion of….”We just need to lower our expectations.” Lol these people are DELUSIONAL.
@@lembafranck3490 I am doing very well but if you look at the percentage of folks who are in the actual middle class, it has shrunk a lot since 1980. Same with home ownership, wage growth etc. "I'm fine" isn't a counterpoint to the middle class is shrinking. That's like someone in Nazi germany saying "the holocaust isn't real, I am doing fine" LOL.
Income and wealth disparity is at the highest ever in our history. A very bad situation for both the poorest and richest in our country. Raise taxes on billionaires. Duhhh!
I agree we need better politicians. I dont agree a bunch of upper middle class/rich office workers telling people who are struggling to get over it. Thats pretty lame. Inflation has outpaced wage growth for years now. The boomers are the ones propping up spending. Everyone else is straped to their eyeballs. A lot of these people are working 60-80 hours a week just to have nothing. The underclass has grown to such a size it cant be ingored for much longer. Doing so ensures that our politics becomes even more radical.
And productivity gains have outpaced wages immensely. Minimum wage would be nearly $30 if it had kept pace with inflation and productivity. Not saying we raise it to $30 but it demonstrates why the discontent many feel isn't imaginary.
@@georgehenderson476 Yeah it's funny he recognizes our political system going down hill but he's not smart enough to recognize it's because people are getting so desperate. We got one guy talking about handouts for everyone and the other one is talking about burning down the system.
@@jordanslingluff287 right wing nut jobs like this guy love to make political issues about nonsense like “happiness” because it doesn’t threaten rich people’s money
Thanks millionaire man, alls i needed was positivity. Who would have thought it was so simple? I cant wait for this generation to be forgotten by the tides of history.
You make your own reality. Sounds to me like your reality is miserable, and you probably make those around you miserable as well. I'm really glad I don't know you, because your kind of negativity is toxic.
People are pessimistic because basic needs for the lower class has become unaffordable. The wife and I go out for a nice dinner and have to walk by a ton of homeless and that takes away from what we’re doing. How can I enjoy myself when hundreds of thousands are homeless it’s a wild time right now.
The world is more political now. Especially here in America. Now that we are so divided. It's nothing but negativity through all media platforms. Pessimism is pervasive. Doom and gloom sells. Also now to add to fuel to the fire, its opinion over facts. If you disagree with me i have to hurl childness insults your way..etc. America and the world at large has reached a dark place.
Don’t worry be happy!!! Why are you asking someone who is rich why they’re not happy? Ask someone who is poor and have absolutely no idea how to get out of the poverty trap they’re in. Just be happy and comply, because they are happy.
He is accurate regarding corporate leadership. However, corporate leaders can be changed by the decision of a few board members. Corporate leaders can’t tax their employees, and waste the money on silly things, then tax them even more. His assessment of the public is nonsense. Corporate leaders can declare bankruptcy, and stop the spending. Our government can’t and won’t.
These men are living in a nice big house, having big retirement, do they really know majority American families issues?! They should speak for themselves
On the other hand, on balance, WE SURE CONSUME FAR BEYOND OUR MEANS and we live in a country that allows us to make choices that can turn our personal prospects around. And thats a good thing!
My parents of the Depression/WW II years made about $10,000 a year while today my wife and I make $140,000 a year because of educational opportunities and we should according to the naysayers be "negative."
What alternate reality is this fella living in. When so many people in the US are living paycheck to paycheck, with no savings, his view cant align with reality. The dude thinks bumber stickers are going to solve the US problems...not so.
Looking at a macro picture of the world one would be right most of the time by picking the optimistic answer to any questions. The world is in a far better spot in almost every category than it was decades ago.
Some factually incorrect statements. Like when he says that we’re the most upwardly mobile society in history. The reality is that we’re less upwardly mobile than we used to be and less upwardly mobile than much of Europe currently is.
What a bad argument- everything is great huh? Millennials can’t afford a home cost of living is significant - debt is going higher - these tech layoffs have now come back at 25-30% less pay for even more responsibilities- there’s been a war on remote work because every business and investor is to invested in commercial real estate and have no real arguments against it. Blind optimism is not a working strategy- I’ll admit the news is always negative sometimes for no reason - but again blind optimism sets us up for wreck
Arthur Brooks is out of touch. Prices are a HUGE issue and corporations refuse to adjust prices with inflation AKA LOWER prices. Pepsi got banned in Europe's largest grocery store chain due to price gouging
“Let’s just say it the republicans are the problem.” This was written in 2012. “The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.” - Ornstein and Mann
