Greetings dear listeners this is Jonah Goldberg and this is another

Ebullient episode of the Remnant Podcast. Some of you may or may not know but I've

been wildly busy and so I was sort of desperate that we have the studio

reserved on Tuesday mornings and so I figured even though we didn't have one

schedule for today I didn't know when I was going to be back and I wanted to get

one in the can and so I was over the weekend enraged by a tweet. This happens to

me too often I wouldn't say it happens to me a lot but it happens to me too often but

Beto or Rourke tweeted the unprecedented concentration of wealth, power, and

privilege in the United States must be broken apart opportunity must be fully

shared with all we must all have the opportunities to succeed together as one

country. Now this annoyed me for a bunch of different reasons first of all I'd

like the idea of attacking certain segments of society together as one

country but also this conception that we have unprecedented concentrations of

wealth, power, and privilege in the United States. Some of that may be true but

the wealth part I'm very skeptical of and so I sent an email to some egg heads

that I respect and also this guy Michael strain and about this and I was

thinking about doing a column about it and Michael had the best response and

why let's do a podcast with him about this. So we're going to cover the waterfront

on a bunch of different things but I wanted to start with this. Michael strain is

the director of economics studies here at the American Enterprise Institute. You

are a columnist from Bloomberg. You are I think few would dispute this the

the real feather in your cap of your resume is that you were the godfather to

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