"Be nice to them if they're cool, and be mean to them if or not," says the author of a new book. "They just wanted to be next to somebody who was a normal person and wasn't judging them" Author spent four years driving across America in his van talking to people he met while working at mac donalds. The homeless told him: 'Just treat me like a normal person, man'
In this episode of Infinite Loops, we spoke with Chris Arnade, author of the bestselling book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Backrow America. We discussed:
- Why Chris left Wall Street to document ‘back row America’.
- How Wall Street has changed over the years
- Why Chris’s work triggers certain crowds of people
- The importance of McDonald's to American communities
- The lessons he’s learned from traveling around America’s lower-income communities.
- And more…
If you’d like to order Chris’ book, you can find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Dignity-Seeking-Respect-Back-America/dp/0525534733