Yeah. What's so interesting is that Trump becomes the early avatar for the shift in culture. Again, I argue in the book, while we've never been perfect, In the middle of the last century, we did have a greater emphasis on shared prosperity around a kind of social contract in our economy. And then because of a lot of the economic changes that I just mentioned during the 80s, the whole economy starts to shift, and we start to lionize greed. (18:45–18:54)
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