187. The Middle Class Is Disappearing - Here's How to Make Money Before It's Too Late
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Bedros Keuilian
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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42% OFF - Get your Digital Man Up book + Audiobook + 2 Exclusive MASTERCLASSES https://bit.ly/manuptribeLife has gotten brutally expensive. Homes up 145%, cars up 136%, rent up 300%, healthcare up 250%, and gas & groceries up 230% in just 25 years… while your paycheck only crawled up 74%. The middle class is gone. A regular job is now a disadvantage unless you’re in one of the few high-income skills. In this episode, I break down exactly what’s happening, why it’s designed this way, and most importantly — what you can actually do about it.If you’re tired of trading time for dollars that don’t keep up, it’s time to wake up and consider entrepreneurship.Watch until the end. This one might be the push you need. Let’s get after it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bedroft's Coolie and show. |
| 0:05.0 | What's the difference between me and you? |
| 0:13.0 | Back when Q was rolling with Lorenzo and a Benzo, I was banging with a gang of instrumental. |
| 0:20.0 | Life has gotten massively expensive in recent times and having a job is not enough. |
| 0:24.8 | In fact, it's not just the expenses and the cost of inflation. |
| 0:29.0 | It is the unfair and unequal playing ground that you are on right now and you may not even realize it. |
| 0:34.9 | Guys, welcome to the Bedroskoolion show. |
| 0:36.6 | I want to talk to you about why life has gotten so expensive and what you can even realize it. Guys, welcome to the Bedros-Coolion show. I want to talk to you about why life has gotten so expensive |
| 0:39.1 | and what you can do about it. |
| 0:41.2 | Because in recent years, when you think about how much things have changed |
| 0:45.5 | in terms of what a household income could achieve |
| 0:49.1 | and what one household income could do, |
| 0:52.0 | as in one person working, let alone two people working, |
| 0:54.8 | let alone each of them having multiple jobs just to make ends meet. |
| 0:58.3 | Things have gotten absolutely out of control. |
| 1:00.3 | So I decided to do the research because I was curious. |
| 1:03.5 | And I said, let me just look at one generational span. |
| 1:06.2 | If you don't know this, one generational span is about 25 years, right? |
| 1:10.0 | So I said, all right, let's go back to 2001 |
| 1:12.4 | and compare it to now, 2026, right? That's 25 years, one generational span. And so as I started |
| 1:20.4 | doing the research, I saw that new homes, the median new home in 2001 was $170,000. Today the median new home is $420,000. And if you live in a state like |
| 1:33.9 | California, we're talking close to a million. But just the median new home in the United States |
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