Poverty, the Housing Crisis and Lobster on Food Stamps w/ Matthew Desmond
Factually! with Adam Conover
You Know, I've Worked Hard Stories, Right?
"It's almost the, the Joseph Campbell, Ur myth of America," he says. "The folks that you write about are working just as hard as that." The people on shark tank don't get the same results because they didn't start out like everyone else in their family or society at a low point and so there is no social explanation for how they got to be where they are today.
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