Are We Just Giving Up on That?

Conservative voters believe that we're already living in some semblance of ameritocracy. They think the harder you work, the further you go. And so for them, there's a kind of a, it's, the system is functioning. Its the sades co functions. We just have to fight over how to optimize the san om. What actually has been shown to improve economic outcomes for working class people is like, really, really child tax credit and universial child care.