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Second Class · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  So I traveled around the country for a year, interviewing working class people from
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  all political persuasions, all races, lots of different industries to get their thoughts
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  on whether they think they still have a fair shot at the American dream,
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  and really how we could increase their shot at the American dream. And I
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  heard a lot of them talking about how betrayed they feel by the elites.
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  And by the way, by the elites they don't mean billionaires. A lot
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  of them admire billionaires. They see billionaires as jobs creators. By the elites,
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  they mean that sort of credentialed, college over educated elite in the top
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  twenty percent in professional managerial jobs, who really, over the course of the
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  last four years, have been engaged in a plunder of the middle class,
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  an upward transfer of wealth of middle class wages into their own pockets.