“How did the American Dream die? How did the Middle Class die? I'm going to tell you” Every person in America needs to understand this - It started in the 1980s with trickle down economics that did not work. They decided to give tax cuts to the rich incorporation saying that money would trickle down. It didn't. It just made the rich richer - Then we greenlit stock buybacks so instead of when the productivity was going up, instead of giving workers more money, they just bought back their stock so the shareholders could make profit and executives could get bonuses - Then we had leveraged buyouts and the government didn't regulate leverage buyouts. And that was the start of private equity basically buying up everything so that they could make more money - Then we moved away from pensions to 401ks which essentially just took the responsibility and accountability of the company to take care of their workers with the retirement and put it on to individuals. But we were never taught economics in high school. So how the f*ck are we supposed to know about compound interest and investing? But they said the 401k was better than the pension, when it wasn't - Then they started shipping our jobs overseas, building the middle class of other countries so that they could make more profit destroying the middle class here. Then we started ramping up the borrowing money and getting into debt as a country which devalues our dollar. - Then in 2008 we had predatory lending which crashed the housing market, fucked over so many Americans. And then we used taxpayer money to bail out the banks. And when all the houses were cheap, the the rich went and bought those up. And that's when you started to see the rent start to increase around the 2010s into the 2015s - Then in 2011 we allowed super PACs to exist so billionaires can now buy elections and they use that money on attack ads. Which divides the country. Divide and conquer. And that's what they did - In 2020 we had the pandemic which both sides of the aisle handled like absolute shit. Shut down all small businesses, all the money went to the top. The rich got richer. They printed trillions of dollars more which people needed. But what did all the people do? We spent the money cause we needed to spend the money. And where did that money go? To the top. And they got richer. - Lastly they decided during the pandemic let's lower the interest rates on buying a home to 2 and a half to 3% so that people could refinance and get ahead. But no, all that really did was give the green light to a bunch of rich people to basically borrow free money. And buy up all the f*cking housing so that we can no longer own a home. And that all ended in 2021. Then we've experienced 25% inflation since the pandemic and here we are in 2025, and we no longer have a middle class, and the American dream is dead.”